An evaluation of the performance of chemistry transport models - Part 2: Detailed comparison with two selected campaigns
International audience This is the second part of a rigorous model evaluation study involving five global Chemistry-Transport and two Chemistry-Climate Models operated by different groups in Europe. Simulated trace gas fields were interpolated to the exact times and positions of the observations to...
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International audience This is the second part of a rigorous model evaluation study involving five global Chemistry-Transport and two Chemistry-Climate Models operated by different groups in Europe. Simulated trace gas fields were interpolated to the exact times and positions of the observations to account for the actual weather conditions and hence for the specific histories of the sampled air masses. In this part of the study we focus on a detailed comparison with two selected campaigns, PEM-Tropics A and SONEX, contrasting the clean environment of the tropical Pacific with the more polluted North Atlantic region. The study highlights the different strengths and weaknesses of the models in accurately simulating key processes in the UT/LS region including stratosphere-troposphere-exchange, rapid convective transport, lightning emissions, radical chemistry and ozone production. Model simulated Radon, which was used as an idealized tracer for continental influence, was occasionally much better correlated with measured CO than simulated CO pointing towards deficiencies in the used biomass burning emission fields. The abundance and variability of HO x radicals is in general well represented in the models as inferred directly from the comparison with measured OH and HO 2 and indirectly from the comparison with hydrogen peroxide concentrations. Components of the NO y family such as PAN, HNO 3 and NO were found to compare less favorably. Interestingly, models showing good agreement with observations in the case of PEM-Tropics A often failed in the case of SONEX and vice versa. A better description of NO x and NO y emissions, chemistry and sinks is thought to be key to future model improvements with respect to the representation of chemistry in the UT/LS region. |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-00295586v1 2023-05-15T17:35:06+02:00 An evaluation of the performance of chemistry transport models - Part 2: Detailed comparison with two selected campaigns Brunner, D. Staehelin, J. Rogers, H. L. Köhler, M. O. Pyle, J. A. Hauglustaine, D. A. Jourdain, L. Berntsen, T. K. Gauss, M. Isaksen, I.S.A. Meijer, E. Van Velthoven, P. Pitari, G. Mancini, E. Grewe, V. Sausen, R. Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science Zürich (IAC) Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich) Centre for Atmospheric Science Cambridge, UK University of Cambridge UK (CAM) Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette (LSCE) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Modelling the Earth Response to Multiple Anthropogenic Interactions and Dynamics (MERMAID) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Service d'aéronomie (SA) Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Geosciences Oslo Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Oslo University of Oslo (UiO)-University of Oslo (UiO) Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Dipartimento di Fisica L'Aquila Università degli Studi dell'Aquila (UNIVAQ) DLR Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre (IPA) Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling (DLR) 2005-01-21 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586/file/acp-5-107-2005.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-107-2005 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/acp-5-107-2005 hal-00295586 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586/file/acp-5-107-2005.pdf doi:10.5194/acp-5-107-2005 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1680-7316 EISSN: 1680-7324 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00295586 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, European Geosciences Union, 2005, 5 (1), pp.107-129. ⟨10.5194/acp-5-107-2005⟩ [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2005 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-107-2005 2021-12-19T04:11:16Z International audience This is the second part of a rigorous model evaluation study involving five global Chemistry-Transport and two Chemistry-Climate Models operated by different groups in Europe. Simulated trace gas fields were interpolated to the exact times and positions of the observations to account for the actual weather conditions and hence for the specific histories of the sampled air masses. In this part of the study we focus on a detailed comparison with two selected campaigns, PEM-Tropics A and SONEX, contrasting the clean environment of the tropical Pacific with the more polluted North Atlantic region. The study highlights the different strengths and weaknesses of the models in accurately simulating key processes in the UT/LS region including stratosphere-troposphere-exchange, rapid convective transport, lightning emissions, radical chemistry and ozone production. Model simulated Radon, which was used as an idealized tracer for continental influence, was occasionally much better correlated with measured CO than simulated CO pointing towards deficiencies in the used biomass burning emission fields. The abundance and variability of HO x radicals is in general well represented in the models as inferred directly from the comparison with measured OH and HO 2 and indirectly from the comparison with hydrogen peroxide concentrations. Components of the NO y family such as PAN, HNO 3 and NO were found to compare less favorably. Interestingly, models showing good agreement with observations in the case of PEM-Tropics A often failed in the case of SONEX and vice versa. A better description of NO x and NO y emissions, chemistry and sinks is thought to be key to future model improvements with respect to the representation of chemistry in the UT/LS region. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) Pacific Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 5 1 107 129 |