File Specification for the MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis (MERRAero): MODIS AOD Assimilation based on a MERRA Replay

• Main Authors: Da Silva, A. M., Buchard, V., Darmenov, A., Colarco, P. R., Randles, C. A., Govindaraju, R.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Numerical Analysis; Earth Resources and Remote Sensing; Documentation and Information Science; Environment Pollution; Merra; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150021207

This document describes the gridded output files produced by the Goddard Earth Observing System version 5 (GEOS-5) Goddard Aerosol Assimilation System (GAAS) from July 2002 through December 2014. The MERRA Aerosol Reanalysis (MERRAero) is produced with the hydrostatic version of the GEOS-5 Atmospheric Global Climate Model (AGCM). In addition to standard meteorological parameters (wind, temperature, moisture, surface pressure), this simulation includes 15 aerosol tracers (dust, sea-salt, sulfate, black and organic carbon), ozone, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. This model simulation is driven by prescribed sea-surface temperature and sea-ice, daily volcanic and biomass burning emissions, as well as high-resolution inventories of anthropogenic emission sources. Meteorology is replayed from the MERRA Reanalysis.