# Model Representation of Secondary Organic Aerosol in CMAQv4.7

ANNMARIE G. CARLTON,* , † PRAKASH V. BHAVE,* SERGEY L. NAPELENOK, EDWARD O. EDNEY, GOLAM SARWAR, ROBERT W. PINDER, GEORGE A. POULIOT, AND MARC HOUYOUX U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711



### Received February 26, 2010. Revised manuscript received July 22, 2010. Accepted July 29, 2010.



### Numerous scientific upgrades to the representation of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) are incorporated into the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system. Additions include several recently identified SOA precursors: benzene, isoprene, and sesquiterpenes; and pathways: in-cloud oxidation of glyoxal and methylglyoxal, particle-phase oligomerization, and acid enhancement of isoprene SOA. NO x

### dependent aromatic SOA yields are also added along with new empirical measurements of the enthalpies of vaporization and organic mass-to-carbon ratios. For the first time, these SOA precursors, pathways and empirical parameters are included simultaneously in an air quality model for an annual simulationspanning the continental U.S. Comparisons of CMAQmodeled secondary organic carbon (OC sec 

### ) with semiempirical estimates screened from 165 routine monitoring sites across the U.S. indicate the new SOA module substantially improves model performance. The most notable improvement occurs inthe central and southeastern U.S. where the regionally averaged temporal correlations ( r ) between modeled and semiempirical OC sec 

### increase from

- 0.5 to 0.8 and

- 0.3 to 0.8, respectively, whenthe new SOA module is employed.Wintertime OC sec 

### results improve in all regions of the continental U.S. and the seasonal and regional patterns of biogenic SOA are better represented.



## Introduction
The simplistic treatment of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) is a source of considerable uncertainty in air quality model predictions ( 1 ). SOA typically forms in the atmosphere when organic gases react with oxidants (e.g., O 3 

### , · OH, · NO 3 

### ) and form low-volatility products that can be absorbed into the organic fraction of particulate matter (PM). In the U.S., secondary formation typically accounts for 50% of particulate organic carbon (OC) in summer and 20% in winter ( 2 ). Regional air quality models consistently underestimate ground-level fine PM in the summer at both urban and rural locations, primarily a result of errors in organic PM ( 3

- 7 ). Conversely, wintertime OC is often overestimated ( 8, 9 ) due, in part, to SOA formulations that employ overestimated enthalpy of vaporization (∆ H vap 

### ) values ( 10 ). In addition, models predict little to no anthropogenic SOA ( 11, 12 ) though it is observed in the atmosphere (e.g., refs 13, 14). These biases persist even when detailed SOA mechanisms and partitioning schemes are employed ( 15 ), suggesting that the current SOA treatment typically used in atmospheric models is incomplete and requires revision ( 16 ).New findings indicate that several atmospherically important SOA precursors and formation pathways are not widely incorporated in air quality models. For example, isoprene, sesquiterpenes, and benzene have recently been recognized as SOA precursors ( 17

- 19 ) that contribute substantially to ambient organic PM ( 20

- 24). There is increasing evidence that SOA formation is influenced by the abundance of NO x 

### ( 18, 25

- 29 ), the acidity of seed particles ( 30

- 32 ), and the extent of atmospheric aging ( 33

- 35 ). In addition to gas-phase oxidation of organic compounds, it is becoming well-established that SOA can form through aqueous oxidation processes ( 36

- 38 ). Finally, mounting evidence from laboratory and field measurements indicatesthat atmospheric SOA exhibits very low volatility (e.g., LVOOA) ( 35 ), yet atmospheric models typically treat all SOA as semivolatile compounds that partition reversibly between the gas and particulate phases. CMAQ is among the most widely used air quality models, with 2000 + 

### registered users in 90 different countries (www.cmaq-model.org). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as well as state and local governments, use CMAQ for regulatory applications (e.g., ref 39 ) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employs CMAQ for routine air quality forecasting ( 40 ). Given the widespread use of CMAQ, it is important that its algorithms reflect scientific knowledge that is accepted across the research community. The last major update to the SOA treatment in a public version of CMAQ was in 2003 as part of version 4.3. Since then, researchers have used the CMAQ modelingframework to explore the importance of various SOA formation pathways and parametrizations (e.g., refs 1, 11, 15, 24, 41, 42 ). Meanwhile, a number of SOA formation mechanisms proposed by other researchers were assessed in EPA’s smog chamber facilities (e.g., refs 21, 31, 32, 43

- 45), and a tracerbased method for estimating the contributions of different sources to ambient SOA was developed ( 14). The purpose of this paper is to describe updates to the SOA treatment in version 4.7 of the CMAQ model (CMAQv4.7) and document the impact of those updates on a year-long model simulation spanning the continental United States. Principal objectives of CMAQv4.7 are to simulate all major SOA formation processes that are supported by peer-reviewed laboratory studies and all major sources of SOA that have been identified in field samples, without adding substantially to the computational burden of CMAQv4.6. Given the rate at which new knowledge about SOA is being generated in the literature, it is not possible for models to keep pace with every new finding. The SOA treatment described in the present study reflects the state of scientific knowledge as ofAugust 2007. After extensive testing, the new model formulation was released to the public in December 2008 as part of CMAQv4.7. Other major improvements to CMAQv4.7 include an updated N 2 

### O 5 

### hydrolysis parametrization, dynamic mass transfer for coarse-mode aerosol, revisions to the cloud model and new photolysis modeling options ( 7 ).



## Model Description
The SOA treatment in CMAQv4.3 through v4.6 has been described elsewhere (Supporting Information (SI) Section * Address correspondence to either author. carlton@envsci. rutgers.edu (A.G.C.); bhave.prakash@epa.gov (P.V.B.).

† Current address: Department of Environmental Sciences, 14 College Farm Road, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. 

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### S-1, Figure S-1). In those model versions, SOA was formedexclusively via gas-phase oxidation of monoterpenes, alkylsubstituted single-ring aromatics, cresol, and long alkanes, by free radicals ( · OH, · NO 3 

### , O( 3 

### P)) and O 3 

### . The semivolatile products of these oxidation reactions were subsequently absorbed into an organic particulate phase ( 46, 47 ) and their gas/particle partitioning behavior was parametrized with a strong temperature dependence (∆ H vap 

### ) 156 kJ mol

- 1 

### ). A detailed description of the SOA treatment in previous CMAQ versions is provided in SI Section S-1, along with the governing equations for modeling semivolatile partitioning. In CMAQv4.7, SOA is produced from an expanded list of precursors (Table 1) and can be formed via both gas- and aqueous-phase oxidation processes, as well as aerosol-phase reactions. Seven of the 19 secondary organic PM species are treated as nonvolatile (dark-shaded rectangles in Figure 1). The 12 remaining species are semivolatile and have ∆ H vap 

### values reduced in accordance with recent experimental data ( 48 ). Effective saturation concentrations ( c *) at 298 K are derived from laboratory data using the new ∆ H vap 

### values and assuming a representative chamber temperature (Table 1 footnote g ). Semivolatile SOA. In CMAQv4.7, seven organic species (shown along the left edge of Figure 1) may be oxidized in the gas phase to form semivolatile products. The stoichiometric yields ( R) and partitioning parameters ( c*, ∆ H vap 

### ) of these products are provided in Table 1. Whereas previous versions of CMAQ treated monoterpenes as the only biogenic precursor of SOA, CMAQv4.7 includes SOAformation from isoprene, monoterpenes, and sesquiterpenes. Isoprene SOA is formed exclusively via oxidation by · OH. Its yield and partitioning behavior are modeled according to the two-product parametrization of Henze and Seinfeld ( 22), based on the low-NO x 

### laboratory experiments of Kroll et al. ( 18). As in previous versions of CMAQ, SOA parameters for monoterpenes are based on the daylight experiments of Griffin et al. ( 49). Yields and partitioning parameters for five different monoterpenes are lumped together using U.S. emissions-based weighting factors (see SI Table S-3) and the methodology of Bian and Bowman ( 50 ). In CMAQv4.7, the mass-based yields ( RTRP1 

### , RTRP2 

### ) and partitioning parameters ( c* TRP1 

### , c* TRP2 

### ) are corrected to replace the original assumption of unit density ( 49) with more recent experimental data (SI Section S-1). SOA from sesquiterpenes is parametrized in an analogous fashion (i.e., experimental data of Griffin et al. ( 49), emissions-based lumping ( 50 ), and density correction), but only one semivolatile product (SV_SQT) is required to fit the laboratory data ( 49). One of the most consequential updates in CMAQv4.7 is the reduction of ∆ H vap 

### from 156 kJ mol

- 1 

### to 40 kJ mol

- 1 

### for all biogenic SOA species, based on recent chamber measurements of R -pinene SOA ( 48). 

### TABLE 1

. 

### Parameters in CMAQv4.7 SOA Module

gaseous precursor

(model species) oxidants semivolatile products rj f c * g (μ g m - 3 ) ∆ H vap (kJ mol

- 1 ) SOA species M (g mol

- 1 ) OM/OC ratio

Semivolatile SOA **isoprene (ISOP a**  **or ISOPRENE b** **)** · **OH SV_ISO1 0.232 116.01 40 AISO1 96 1.6 SV_ISO2 0.0288 0.617 40 AISO2 96 1.6** 

**monoterpenes (TERP a**  **or TRP1 b** **)** · **OH, O( 3**  **P) e** 

**, O**  **3 ,**  · **NO 3**  **SV_TRP1 0.1393 14.792 40 ATRP1 168 1.4 SV_TRP2 0.4542 133.7297 40 ATRP2 168 1.4** 

**sesquiterpenes (SESQ a** **, b** **) O 3**  **,** · **OH,**

· **NO 3**  **SV_SQT 1.537 24.984 40 ASQT 378 2.1**

**long alkanes (ALK5 b** **)** · **OH SV_ALK 0.0718 0.020 40 AALK 150 1.56**

**high-yield aromatics (TOL a**  **or ARO1 b** **) SV_TOL1 0.0758 2.326 18 ATOL1 168 2.0**

· **OH/NO SV_TOL2 0.1477 21.277 18 ATOL2 168 2.0**

**low-yield aromatics (XYL a**  **or ARO2 b** **) SV_XYL1 0.0386 1.314 32 AXYL1 192 2.0**

· **OH/NO SV_XYL2 0.1119 34.483 32 AXYL2 192 2.0**

**benzene (BENZENE a** **, b** **) SV_BNZ1 0.0942 0.302 18 ABNZ1 144 2.0**

· **OH/NO SV_BNZ2 1.162 111.11 18 ABNZ2 144 2.0**

Nonvolatile SOA **high-yield aromatics c**  · **OH/** · **HO 2**  **0.471 h h**  **ATOL3 168 2.0 low-yield aromatics**  **c** · **OH/** · **HO 2**  **0.373 h h**  **AXYL3 192 2.0 benzene**  **c** · **OH/** · **HO 2**  **0.484 h h**  **ABNZ3 144 2.0 isoprene H**  + **h h AISO3 162 2.7**  **aged aerosol time h h**  **AOLGA 176.4 2.1 AOLGB 252 2.1**  **glyoxal, methylglyoxal (GLY a** **, MGLY a** **, b** 

**, d** **)** · **OH 0.04 h h**  **AORGC 177 2.0**

**a Indicates species name in CB05 gas-phase mechanism. Long alkanes and glyoxal are not modeled explicitly in CB05.** 

**b Indicates name in SAPRC99.**  **c Low-NO**  **x pathways. Mole-based**  R **values reported by Ng et al. ( 28**  **) are divided by the stoichiometric coefficients for peroxy radical products (taken from the SAPRC99 gas-phase chemical mechanism) to obtain**  **the values tabulated here. d**  **When CMAQ is exercised with the CB05 mechanism, the Henry’s Law constant for methylglyoxal is adjusted in the aqueous chemistry routine to the glyoxal value (because GLY is not an explicit species in**  **CB05) to ensure that simulations employing SAPRC99 and CB05 provide similar predictions of AORGC at similar aqueous phase aldehyde concentrations.**  **e There is no O(**  **3 P) species in the CB05 gas-phase mechanism. When CB05 is employed,**  **TRP1 may react with singlet O to form SOA. f**  R **j are mass-based stoichiometric yields. In the aqueous-phase production of**  **AORGC, 0.04 is a molar-based yield. g**  **c***** values are tabulated at 298 K, using the** ∆ **H vap**  **values shown and assuming a representative chamber temperature (313 K for monoterpenes, 310 K for sesquiterpenes, 281.5 K for long alkanes, and no**  **correction for the remaining experiments which were conducted between 293 and 298 K). h**  **For nonvolatile SOA, c** *** and** ∆ **H vap**  **values are not required in atmospheric models.**

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### The organic mass-to-carbon ratios (OM/OC) in Table 1 are obtained from laboratory measurements ( 14) and used to estimate the molar masses ( M ) of each semivolatile product for the absorptive partitioning calculations. The formation of semivolatile SOA from anthropogenic organic gases is depicted in the upper-left portion of Figure 1 and parameters are given in Table 1. Like previous versions of CMAQ, long alkanes ( ∼ 8 carbon atoms) oxidize to yield one semivolatile product (SV_ALK) that is parametrized by Strader et al. ( 51 ) based on early measurements of Grosjean and Seinfeld ( 52 ). Due to the lack of experimental data at the time of this model update, we arbitrarily assign SV_ALK the

same ∆ H vap 

### as our biogenic oxidation products (i.e., 40 kJ mol

- 1 

### ) and a molar mass of 150 g mol

- 1 

### . In previous CMAQ model versions, SOA formation from aromatic compounds was parametrized based on the laboratory data of Odum et al. ( 53 ) by assuming that a single reaction with the · OH radical would produce semivolatile products. In CMAQv4.7, R and

c * values for the semivolatile aromatic reaction products are taken from newer laboratory data ( 28 ) and these products are formed via a two-step process: initial reaction with · OH produces aromatic peroxy radicals and subsequent reaction of the peroxy radicals with NO yields semivolatile organic nitrates (23 ). This treatment is applied to high-yield aromatics (based on laboratory data for toluene), low-yield aromatics (based on m -xylene data), and benzene. The OM/OC ratio of 2.0 for all six semivolatile aromatic reaction products is taken from laboratory measurements of toluene SOA ( 14). For the low-yield aromatic products (SV_XYL1 and SV_XYL2), ∆ H vap 

### is taken from laboratory irradiations of m -xylene and1,3,5-trimethylbenzene (J.H. Offenberg, personal communication). The ∆ H vap 

### value for SV_TOL1 and SV_TOL2 (18 kJ mol

- 1 

### ) is from the upper end of the range for toluene (13.8

- 17.5 kJ mol

- 1 

### ) ( 48 ) and is also applied to the benzene products (SV_BNZ1 and SV_BNZ2). Our final update to the semivolatile SOA treatment in CMAQv4.7 is the removal of cresol as an explicit SOA precursor. Any SOA formed from cresol is likely counted in the toluene SOA parametrization described above because cresol is a product of toluene oxidation. Nonvolatile SOA. A major enhancement to the SOA treatment in CMAQv4.7 is the inclusion of nonvolatile SOA species, which are depicted as dark-shaded rectangles in Figure 1. Unlike the semivolatile SOA described above, these species do not partition back to the gas phase. Four types of nonvolatile SOA are included in CMAQv4.7 (see bottom of Table 1): (1) low-NO x 

### aromatic SOA, (2) acidenhanced isoprene SOA, (3) oligomers formed through particle-phase reactions, and (4) SOA from aqueous-phase oxidation. Under low-NO x 

### conditions, aromatic peroxy radicals react preferentially with · HO 2 

### (instead of NO) to produce nonvolatile SOA ( 28). Although ground-level · HO 2 

### mixing ratios in CMAQ are 1

- 2 orders of magnitude smaller than NO across the remote continental U.S. and over 1000 times smaller than NO in urban areas, the low · HO 2 

### abundance is slightly compensated by its fast reaction rate with aromatic peroxy radicals (50% faster than the rate of · RO 2 

### + NO at 35 ° C and 150% faster at

- 10 ° C; see SI Table S-4). Moreover, the stoichiometric yields of nonvolatile products are substantially larger than those of the semivolatile products (see Table 1). Combining the faster reaction rates and larger yields with the fact that the · RO 2 

### + · HO 2 

### reaction products reside entirely within the particle phase, we expect FIGURE 1. Schematic of CMAQv4.7 SOA module. Species inside the circle constitute the organic fine PM. Species in the dark shaded boxes are treated as nonvolatile. Gas-phase oxidation pathways are depicted on the left and aqueous-phase oxidation is shown on the right. Double-headed arrows spanning the gas/particle interface represent the equilibrium partitioning of semivolatile SOA species.

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### nonvolatile aromatic SOA to rival the abundance of the semivolatile species described above (ATOL1, ATOL2, AXYL1, etc.) ( 23). Although several laboratory studies have demonstrated that organic PM production from isoprene is enhanced relative to pH-neutral conditions ( 21, 30, 31 ), only Surratt and co-workers include a parametrization of the impact of acidity. An enhancement factor, k acid 

### ) 0.00361 m 3 

### nmol

- 1 

### , is calculated from Figure 1 of reference ( 31 ) by normalizing the laboratory-derived slope (0.0389 μ gC nmol

- 1 

### ) by the intercept term (10.733 μ gC m

- 3 

### ) shown in that figure. Acidity is parametrized using the particle-phase hydrogen ion concentration in air (H + 

### nmol m

- 3 

### air), which we estimate by subtracting the molar concentration of fine-particle cations (ammonium and sodium) from the equivalent concentration of anions (nitrate, chloride and twice the sulfate) and we constrain H + 

### within the range of experimental data (0 e [H + 

### ] e 530 nmol m

- 3 

### ) ( 31 ). The additional secondary organic carbon OC sec 

### due to particle acidity is treated as a nonvolatile species in CMAQ and is calculated by multiplying k acid 

### by the isoprene (OC sec

### ) formed via semivolatile partitioning, with appropriate measures to ensure mass conservation. All semivolatile organic PM species in the model undergo condensed-phase oligomerization reactions that produce nonvolatile products by a first order rate, k olig 

### ) 9.6 × 10

- 6



### s - 1 

### , corresponding to a 20 h half-life ( 11, 33 ). The oligomersoriginating from biogenic gases (AOLGB) are tracked separately from those originating from anthropogenic gases (AOLGA). The OM/OC ratio for oligomers (2.1) is based on a recommended value for nonurban areas ( 54). The final nonvolatile species in CMAQv4.7 (AORGC) forms from aqueous-phase oxidation of glyoxal and methylglyoxal by the hydroxyl radical ( · OH). These constituents partitioninto cloud and fogwater according to Henry’s Law and lowvolatility reaction products remain in the particle phase after the droplets evaporate. This treatment is depicted on the right side of Figure 1 and has been described in detail in a separate publication ( 42 ). The OM/OC ratio (2.0) is estimated from laboratory experiments ( 55 ). Gas-Phase Chemistry. CMAQv4.7 is fully compatible with two chemical mechanisms: a recently updated Carbon Bond mechanism (CB05) ( 56 ) and the 1999 Statewide Air Pollution Research Center mechanism (SAPRC99) ( 57 ). To each mechanism, we add 10 reactions and modify several existing reactions to accommodate the new SOA treatmentin CMAQv4.7 (see SI Tables S-4 and S-5). Neither mechanism contains a sesquiterpene species, so three of our new reactions simulate the oxidation of sesquiterpenes by O 3 

### , · OH, and · NO 3 

### . Due to the large uncertainties in sesquiterpene emissions and in the rates and product distribution of the various reactions that may follow the initial oxidation, we incorporate only their first-generation decay in a manner that does not consume oxidants (e.g., SESQ + O 3 

### f SV_SQT + O 3 

### ) or affect CMAQ predictions of O 3 

### and other gases. Neither CB05 nor SAPRC99 treat benzene explicitly, so we add three reactions to simulate the oxidation of benzene by · OH and subsequent reactions of the benzene peroxy radical with NO and · HO 2 

### . Finally,we add four reactions to simulate the interactions of highand low-yield aromatic peroxy radicals with NO and · HO 2 

### . See SI Section S-2 for a complete description of these mechanistic changes. Deposition. Dry and wet deposition of all 19 particlephase SOA species mimic the treatment applied to inorganic PM species in previous CMAQ versions ( 58, 59 ). Note that deposition is the only removal mechanism for nonvolatile SOA. For the semivolatile organic gases (i.e., SV species in Figure 1), wet deposition is simulated using adipic acid as a surrogate and dry deposition velocities are copied from acetic acid. Critical properties for these processes are Henry’s Law constant, molecular weight, diffusivity and relative reactivity.



## Methodology Model Simulations. Two CMAQ simulations of the 2003 calendar year are conducted on a 36 km grid that spans the continental U.S. from the Earth’s surface to a 100mb altitude (112 rows × 148 columns × 14 layers ) 232 064 computational cells). Both simulations are driven by identical weather fields from the MM5 meteorological model ( 60 ). The first simulation uses the publicly available CMAQv4.6 source code with SAPRC99 chemical mechanism and Rosenbrock solver, plus some minor code changes. The second simulation, referred to hereafter as CMAQv4.6s, uses the same code except the SOA treatment is copied from CMAQv4.7. Source code for the latter simulation is available from the authors upon request. We purposely do not apply the full CMAQv4.7 model for the second simulation because v4.7 contains several scientific updates unrelated to SOA ( 7 ) and our objective is to isolate only the impacts of our new SOA treatment on CMAQ model performance. In addition to the two annual simulations, three 21-day summertime simulations are conducted with each model version (v4.6 and v4.6s) to examine the sensitivity of modeled SOA to anthropogenic emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x

### ), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and primary OC (OC pri

### ). Boundary Conditions. For the CMAQv4.6s simulations, concentrations of anthropogenic SOA species at the domain boundaries are obtained directly from the global modeling results of Henze et al. ( 23) and biogenic SOA species are obtained from Chung and Seinfeld ( 61 ) and Liao et al. ( 5 ). Boundary values for SOA species that were not explicitly treated in those studies (e.g., AALK, ASQT, AOLGA, AOLGB) are scaled from the available explicit values using ratios observed in CMAQ simulations near the borders of the continental U.S. modeling domain. Temperature-corrected concentrations of semivolatile gases are calculated at the boundaries as a fractional ratio of c* and the POC concentration is approximated as 0.15

μ g m - 3 

### ( 61 ). The vertical distribution of species, for whichadditional information was not available, is scaled (exponential decay) from surface-level concentrations ( 62). See SI Section S-3 for a complete description of the revised CMAQ boundary conditions. Emissions. For all simulations, anthropogenic emissions are taken from the EPA’s 2002 National Emissions Inventory (NEI). Emissions of biogenic species are computed using the Biogenic Emission Inventory System (BEIS), withupdates to incorporate sesquiterpene emissions. Sesquiterpenes are lumped into a single compound class using available measurements for R -farnasene,  -caryophyllene, and various other sesquiterpenes. Basal emission rates (BER) for sesquiterpenes are derived from the EF-S06 emission case in Table 1 of reference 63 . Dividing each emission factor by the corresponding biomass density from that study, we obtain BER of 0.175, 0.1084, 0.0552, and 0.2036 μ g g dry - 1 

### hr

- 1 

### , for broadleaf trees, needle-leaf trees, shrubs and bushes, and grasses and crops, respectively. Each of the 230 tree species in BEIS is mapped to one of these BER except Loblolly pine, for which 0.3 μ g g dry - 1 

### hr

- 1 

### is used ( 64). All BER are modulated based on th e 2 m air temperature ( T , K) in each grid cell,

to obtain a temporally- and grid-specific emission rate (ER). The factor of 0.17 is based on outdoor measurements ( 65 ). ER ) BER *e 0.17( T

- 303) 

### (1)

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### Model Evaluation. CMAQ model performance is evaluated against semiempirical estimates of OC sec 

### by the procedure of Yu et al. ( 2 ).

The obs subscript indicates concentrations observed at Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments (IMPROVE) (http://vista.cira.colostate.edu/improve) and Southeastern Aerosol Research and Characterization (SEARCH) (http://www.atmospheric-research.com/public/) network sites. (OC/EC) pri 

### is a ratio calculated from CMAQ outputs of OC pri 

### and EC, reflecting the mixture of primary sources impacting a given site at the time when each sample was collected. Model-predicted ratios are assessed at all 165 monitoring sites following the procedure described by Yu et al. ( 2 ), and 97 sites are selected for the subsequent model evaluation of OC sec 

### (Figure S2). In CMAQv4.6, OC sec 

### is calculated from eq 1 of reference ( 9

). In CMAQv4.6s, it is the sum of all 19 SOA species divided by the OM/OC ratios listed in Table 1. Hourly OC sec 

### concentrations from each annual simulation are paired in space with the semiempirical estimates at 97 sites and temporally averaged to match the 24 h sampling schedule of each network. 

## Results and Discussion The diversity of SOA species in CMAQv4.6s is substantially more complex than in previous model versions, allowing for assignment of SOA mass to individual VOC precursors. With CMAQv4.6, SOA derived from monoterpenes comprises most of the predicted OC sec 

### (Figure 2) and anthropogenic precursors contribute a small amount to a single anthropogenic SOA species. With CMAQv4.6s, biogenic SOA still dominates OC sec 

### predictions, but there are six species that can be assigned to three VOC precursors and two different formation processes. Similarly, in v4.6s, there are ten anthropogenic SOA species traceable to four VOC precursors and predictions increase as a result of the additional species and formation pathways ( 7 ) (SI Figure S-3). The seasonal pattern for biogenic SOA mass predictions improves with the new SOA mechanism ( 7 ), (SI Figure S-4). However, the magnitude of OC sec 

### decreases (compare Figures 2a and 2b) despite the addition of two biogenic precursors (isoprene and sesquiterpenes) and two additional formation pathways (oligomerization and acidic enhancement). This result largely arises from changing ∆ H vap 

### for biogenic SOA from 156 kJ mol

- 1 

### in CMAQv4.6 to 40 kJ mol

- 1 

### in v4.6s. The change to a lower ∆ H vap 

### value causes less semivolatile material to partition into the particle phase at typical ambient temperatures and, in general, less biogenic SOA is predicted as a consequence. This very large effect is evidenced by comparing the v4.6 biogenic OC sec 

### (gray in Figure 2a) (which originates entirely from monoterpenes) with OC sec 

### from monoterpenes in v4.6s (light green in Figure 2b). Comparison with Semiempirical OC sec 

### Estimates. CMAQv4.6s simulations demonstrate better agreement with semiempirical OC sec 

### estimates than v4.6 (Figure 2). FIGURE 2. Seasonal profiles for CMAQ-predicted OC sec 

### (CMAQv4.6 on top, CMAQv4.6s on bottom) and semiempirical estimates (•), averaged by month across the 97 sites shown in SI Figure S-2.

FIGURE 3. Sensitivity of SOA originating from anthropogenic VOC (a), biogenic VOC (b) and all pathways (c) to emission controls in summertime CMAQv4.6 and CMAQv4.6s simulations. Percent reductions are calculated from 21-day simulations using surface-level, domain-wide averages in which controllable emissions of VOCs, NO x 

### , and OC pri 

### are separately removed from the emission inputs. Note: SOA derived from glyoxal and methylglyoxal via cloud processing is counted in (c), but excluded from (a) and (b). OC sec 

### ) OC obs 

### - 

# [ min 

# ( OC obs 

### , 

# ( OC EC 

# )
pri 

### × EC obs

# ) 

# ] (2)

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### When averaged by month across 97 sites, temporal correlation ( r ) between the modeled and semiempirical OC sec 

### concentrations improves from 0.54 in CMAQv4.6 to 0.86 using CMAQv4.6s. This correlation also improves in individual regions of the U.S., most notably in the central states and Southeast, where CMAQv4.6 exhibits a negative correlation with the semiempirical estimates (

- 0.5 and

- 0.3, respectively) and v4.6s exhibits a large positive correlation (0.8 and 0.8) (SI Figures S-5 and S-6). In addition to the improved correlation, we note that v4.6s exhibits a slope closer to unity (slope v4.6s 

### ) 0.31, slope v4.6 

### ) 0.13) and an intercept closer to zero (interceptv4.6s 

### ) 0.02, interceptv4.6



### ) 0.42). The improved spatial and temporal trends in biogenic SOA, which dominates predicted OC sec 

### concentrations in both simulations (Figure 2), drives the enhanced model performance. In contrast to CMAQv4.6, the revised SOA treatment (v4.6s) produces summertime maxima for OC sec 

### in all regions, consistent with the observational estimates (compare SI Figures S-5 and S-6). In addition, the wintertime (December

- March) overestimates of OC sec 

### that were evident in CMAQ v4.6 are eliminated by the new SOA treatment (Figure 2). Emissions Sensitivities. Our updated SOA treatment also affects CMAQ predictions of how ambient SOA might respond to future NO x

### , VOC, and OC pri 

### emission controls. To evaluatethese effects, three 21-day simulations (August 15 to September 4, 2003) are conducted with v4.6 and v4.6s in which all controllable emissions of NO x

### , VOC or OC pri 

### are removed.Relative to v4.6, CMAQv4.6s predictions of SOA from anthropogenic VOC exhibit diminished sensitivity to NO x 

### and OC pri 

### (Figure 3a). Note that in this context anthropogenic VOC refers to alkanes and aromatic compounds, for which some uncontrollable sources (e.g., wildfires) exist ( 66 ). The diminished sensitivities in v4.6s arise from low-NO x 

### aromatic oxidation pathways that produce nonvolatile SOA with high stoichiometric yield, and particle-phase oligomerization pathways that are independent of OC pri 

### concentrations. In contrast, v4.6s predictions of SOA from biogenic VOC exhibit heightened sensitivity to OC pri 

### emissions (Figure 3b). This increased sensitivity arises from the v4.6s addition of highly reactive sesquiterpenes, whose SOA-forming potential is limited only by the amount of available absorbing organic mass ( 66 ). Total SOA predictions in v4.6s also exhibit heightened sensitivity to VOC emission controls (Figure 3c) due to the larger contribution of anthropogenic VOCs to the total SOA mass. Future Model Development. The SOA mechanism in CMAQ includes several new precursors and formation pathways, reflecting the state of scientific knowledge as of August 2007. Predicted trends and patterns for OC sec 

### are better with the new mechanism, especially for biogenic products. However, a substantial negative bias in summertime OC sec 

### persists, suggesting that uncharacterized SOA sources exist and/or current modeling approaches are insufficient (e.g., ref 35 ). Future model upgrades may require the addition of more SOA precursors and pathways ( 67 ), and will be guided by diagnostic model evaluations against organic tracer data ( 14).


## Acknowledgments This work is the result of a large collaboration across the EPA involving a variety of groups, namely AMAD, HEASD, NRMRL, OAQPS, OTAQ, and NCER. We acknowledge helpful contributions from Tad Kleindienst, Chris Geron, Kristen Foley, Heather Simon, Nancy Hwang, Charles Chang, Lucille Bender, and Ruen Tang. We acknowledge Rob Griffin for verifying data and methods used in his 1999 JGR article and Rohit Mathur and Bill Benjey for administrative support. Bonyoung Koo, Greg Yarwood, Ralph Morris provided helpful discussions during the development of the new SOA module. Disclaimer: The United States Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development funded and managed the research described here. It has been subjected to Agency’s administrative review and approved for publication.


## Supporting Information Available Additional details, references, tables, and figures. This material is available free of charge via the Internet at http:// pubs.acs.org.



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