Most of the chemical species in CAMS Global data are archived as mass mixing ratios (MMR, kg of gas / kg of air).
Convert MMR to mass concentration (e.g. in kg/m3)
To compute mass concentration (mass per volume unit) apply this formula:
\[ \rho_x = \alpha_{x}\frac{p}{RT} \]
or
\[ \rho_x = \alpha_{x}\rho \]
Where
\( \rho_x \)
is concentration of a chemical species,
\( \alpha_x \)
is mass mixing ratio,
\( p \)
,
\( T \)
and
\( \rho \)
are ambient pressure, temperature and density and
\( R \)
is the specific gas constant (for dry air
\( 287.058 \frac{J}{kg K} \)
).
Convert MMR to Volume Mixing Ratio (VMR, units ppmv or ppbv)
To convert data from MMR to VMR you only need molar masses of dry air and molar mass of the atmospheric species. See here for more information (page 9). For example:
For O3, the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 47.9982 * 1e9 * MMR
For CO the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 28.0101 * 1e9 * MMR
For NO2 the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 46.0055 * 1e9 * MMR
For SO2 the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 64.0638 * 1e9 * MMR
For CO2 the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 44.0095 * 1e9 * MMR
For CH4 the formula is: VMR = 28.9644 / 16.0425 * 1e9 * MMR
The 1e9 in the formulae gives parts per billion (ppbv), use 1e6 to get parts per million (ppmv)
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Michela Giusti
Most of the chemical species in CAMS Global data are archived as mass mixing ratios (MMR, kg of gas / kg of air).
Convert MMR to mass concentration (e.g. in kg/m3)
To compute mass concentration (mass per volume unit) apply this formula:
\[ \rho_x = \alpha_{x}\frac{p}{RT} \]or
\[ \rho_x = \alpha_{x}\rho \]Where \( \rho_x \) is concentration of a chemical species, \( \alpha_x \) is mass mixing ratio, \( p \) , \( T \) and \( \rho \) are ambient pressure, temperature and density and \( R \) is the specific gas constant (for dry air \( 287.058 \frac{J}{kg K} \) ).
Convert MMR to Volume Mixing Ratio (VMR, units ppmv or ppbv)
To convert data from MMR to VMR you only need molar masses of dry air and molar mass of the atmospheric species. See here for more information (page 9). For example:
The 1e9 in the formulae gives parts per billion (ppbv), use 1e6 to get parts per million (ppmv)
Dobson Unit (DU)
DU is a vertically integrated quantity and can only be used for total or partial column parameters. To convert total column Ozone data from kg/m2 into DU, multiply the values by 46698. See also What is the Dobson Unit (DU)? and How to convert Ozone units from µg/m3 to Dobson Unit?
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Yijing Zheng
Thank you so much for this, really helped!