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Building a Global Modeling Capability Building a Global Modeling Capability for Mercury with GEOS-CHEMfor Mercury with GEOS-CHEM
Noelle Eckley SelinNoelle Eckley Selin
EPS DayEPS Day
12 March 200512 March 2005
THE MERCURY CYCLE: CURRENT
Wet & DryDeposition 2600
ATMOSPHERE5000
SURFACE SOILS1,000,000 OCEAN
289,000
NetWet & DryDeposition1900
Net Oceanic Evasion
1500
Net burial200
Land emissions1600
Quantities in Mg/yearUncertainty ranges in parenthesesAdapted from Mason & Sheu, 2002
AnthropogenicEmissions 2400
Extraction from deep reservoirs2400
River200
(1800-3600) (700-3500)(1680-3120)
(1680-3120)
(1300-2600)(700-3500)
Hg0
1.7 ng/m3
GaseousPhase
AqueousPhase
Hg0
Henry’s Constant 0.11 M/atm
Particulate Phase
Oxidation Hg2+
10-200 pg/m3
HgP
1-100 pg/m3
Hg2+
k=8.7(+/-2.8) x 10-14 cm3 s-1 (Sommar et al. 2001)k=9.0(+/-1.3) x 10-14 cm3 s-1(Pal & Ariya 2004)
k=3(+/-2) x 10-20 cm3 s-1 (Hall 1995)Reported rate constants up to k=1.7 x 10-18 cm3 s-1
Henry’s Constant 1.4x106 M/atm
OH
O3
Oxidation
HO2
??Reduction
SO3
k=1.1-1.7 x 104 M-1 s-1 (Pehkonen & Lin 1998)Shouldn’t occur (Gårdfeldt & Jonsson 2003)
k=0.0106 (+/- 0.0009) s-1
(vanLoon et al. 2000)Occurs only where high sulfur, low chlorine
Oxalate?
What does this mean for global modeling?What does this mean for global modeling?
• Use observations from latitudinal gradient, seasonal cycles, and short-term variability to constrain uncertainties
• Potential for application of inverse modeling? (Chris Holmes…)
• GEOS-CHEM simulation– Oxidation reactions: “best guess” from the published
literature– Aqueous reduction: photochemically mediated, fixed
reaction rate, proportional to [OH](g)
ATMOSPHERE
Hg04260
Hg(II)(trop.)280
Via OH:10236Via OH:10236
Dry Deposition
Ocean Emissions
Land (Natural) Emissions
Anthropogenic Emissions
Land Re-emissions
Hg(P)2
775775 204204
Via O3: 2377Via O3: 2377
1500150014461446
500500
20002000
Dry DepositionWet Deposition
Wet Deposition
10411041
53275327
191191
1111
MERCURY BUDGET IN GEOS-CHEM
Inventories in MgRates in Mg/yr
k=8.7 x 10-14 cm3 s-1
k=3 x 10-20 cm3 s-1
τ = 0.77 yr τ = 7 days τ = 3.5 daysNet ox: 5489
Reduction7124
TGM: Model vs. MeasurementsTGM: Model vs. Measurements
+
Continental sources in South America?Cruise data in the Pacific – inconsistent with OkinawaUnderestimate of concentrations over the oceans
Comparing Model with Measurements: Comparing Model with Measurements: Hemispheric Average TGMHemispheric Average TGM
• Ratio of NH/SH in measurements: 1.49 +/- 0.12 (Temme et al. 2003)
• Northern hemisphere average measurement ≈ 1.7 ng/m3
• Northern hemisphere average GEOS-CHEM: 1.62 ng/m3
• Ratio of NH/SH in GEOS-CHEM simulation: 1.5– Shows that Hg lifetime in GEOS-CHEM is realistic
Temme et al. 2003: black dots GEOS-CHEM: red line
Mace Head
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TG
M (n
g/m
3)
Measured
Modeled
Delta
1.451.5
1.551.6
1.651.7
1.751.8
1.851.9
1.95
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TGM
(ng/
m3)
Measured
Modeled
St. Andrew
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TGM
(ng/
m3)
Measured
Modeled
Rörvik
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TG
M (
ng/m
3)
Measured
Modeled
Alert
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TG
M (
ng
/m3
)
Measured
Modeled
Kejimkujik
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TG
M (n
g/m
3)
Measured
Modeled
Cheeka Peak
0.000.200.400.600.801.001.201.401.601.802.00
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TGM
(ng/
m3)
Measured
Modeled
Cape Point
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
1.8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Month
TGM
(ng/
m3)
Measured
Modeled
Okinawa
0
1
2
3
4
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29
Day (April 2004)
Hg0
(ng
/m3)
Measured
Modeled
Mt. Batchelor
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
2
2.1
2.2
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29
Day (April 2004)
Hg0
, ng/
m3
Measured
Modeled
Data from Dan Jaffe
Banic et al. 2003: aircraft measurements ofHg0 over Ontario
Vertical Profiles of Mercury
GEOS-CHEM:Vertical profile over Ontario
GEOS-CHEM: Latitudinal average Hg0
Hg(II) in the stratosphere?Hg(II) in the stratosphere?
Supported by preliminary aircraftMeasurements…
Wet Deposition: Model vs. MeasurementsWet Deposition: Model vs. Measurements
Wet Depo. over United States, Modeled v. Measured
y = 2.1504x - 6.5583
R2 = 0.77010
10
20
30
40
50
0 5 10 15 20 25
Measured Wet Dep, ug/m2/a
Mo
de
led
wet
dep
, u
g/m
2/a
High Hg deposition in tropical regions;Gradient with latitude
Overestimate of deposition:Too much Hg(II)
Future plans for GEOS-CHEM Hg simulationFuture plans for GEOS-CHEM Hg simulation
• Land and ocean re-emission parameterization: tracing emissions from source to receptor
Source Region
Chemistry and Deposition
Land or Ocean Surface
Reemission
ReceptorRegion
Emissions“tagged” bysource andregion
Deposition“tagged” bysource andregion
Source tag maintained throughdeposition and reemission process
Ocean emissions model: collaboration with Sarah Strode, Lyatt Jaegle @ Univ. of Washington
Old Mercury920,000 preindustrial 80,000 postindustrial
New Mercury
Wet and Dry Deposition
Historical DepositionEmissions Emissions
“Old Mercury” soil concentrations initialized based on historical deposition patterns of natural, anthropogenic sources
Quantities in Mg
Re-emission Modeling in GEOS-CHEMRe-emission Modeling in GEOS-CHEM
Lifetime of “old mercury”: about 1000 yrs
Lifetime of “new mercury: weeks to months
Future Plans: “Mercury Depletion Future Plans: “Mercury Depletion Events” (MDEs) in the ArcticEvents” (MDEs) in the Arctic
• Episodic depletion of TGM at polar sunrise
• Correlates with Arctic O3 depletion events
• Mechanism: conversion to Hg(II) and subsequent deposition
• Proposed mechanism: reaction with BrO?
AMAP, 2003
Changing Contaminant PathwaysChanging Contaminant Pathways
AMAP, 2003
Incoming solar radiation Precipitation
(Rain/Snow)
Ice Cover and gas exchange
Air transport patterns
Collaborators/AcknowledgmentsCollaborators/Acknowledgments
• Advisor: Prof. Daniel Jacob
• Rokjin Park
• Sarah Strode & Lyatt Jaegle @ Univ. of Washington
• Chris Holmes
• Bob Yantosca
Historical Record of Mercury from Historical Record of Mercury from Ice CoreIce Core
• Pre-industrial concentrations indicate natural source
• Episodic volcanic input
• Mining emerges• Industrialization, and
recent decrease
Source: USGS