Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set
The concentrations of sulfate, black carbon (BC) and other aerosols in the Arctic are characterized by high values in late winter and spring (so-called Arctic Haze) and low values in summer. Models have long been struggling to capture this seasonality and especially the high concentrations associate...
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Zeppelinobservatoriet Eckhardt, Sabine Quennehen, B. Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo Berntsen, Terje Koren Cherian, Regimon Christensen, J. Collins, W. Crepinsek, S Daskalakis, N Flanner, M Herber, Andreas Heyes, C Hodnebrog, Øivind Huang, Lan Kanakidou, M Klimont, Z Langner, J. Law, Katharine S. Lund, Marianne Tronstad Mahmood, R Massling, A Myriokefalitakis, S Nielsen, Izabela Ewa Nøjgaard, J.K. Quaas, Johannes Quinn, Patricia K. Raut, Jean-Christophe Rumbold, Steven T. Schulz, M. Sharma, S Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skov, Henrik Uttal, T von Salzen, Knut Stohl, Andreas Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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The concentrations of sulfate, black carbon (BC) and other aerosols in the Arctic are characterized by high values in late winter and spring (so-called Arctic Haze) and low values in summer. Models have long been struggling to capture this seasonality and especially the high concentrations associated with Arctic Haze. In this study, we evaluate sulfate and BC concentrations from eleven different models driven with the same emission inventory against a comprehensive pan-Arctic measurement data set over a time period of two years (2008–2009). The set of models consisted of one Lagrangian particle dispersion model, four chemistry-transport models (CTMs), one atmospheric chemistry-weather forecast model and five chemistry-climate models (CCMs), of which two were nudged to meteorological analyses and three were running freely. The measurement data set consisted of surface measurements of equivalent BC (eBC) from five stations (Alert, Barrow, Pallas, Tiksi and Zeppelin), elemental carbon (EC) from Station Nord and Alert and aircraft measurements of refractory BC (rBC) from six different campaigns. We find that the models generally captured the measured eBC/rBC and sulfate concentrations quite well, compared to past comparisons. However, the aerosol seasonality at the surface is still too weak in most models. Concentrations of eBC and sulfate averaged over three surface sites are underestimated in winter/spring in all but one model (model means for January-March underestimated by 59 and 37% for BC and sulfate, respectively), whereas concentrations in summer are overestimated in the model mean (by 88 and 44% for July–September), but with over- as well as underestimates present in individual models. The most pronounced eBC underestimates, not included in the above multi-site average, are found for the station Tiksi in Siberia where the measured annual mean eBC concentration is three times higher than the average annual mean for all other stations. This suggests an underestimate of BC sources in Russia in the emission ... |
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Eckhardt, Sabine Quennehen, B. Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo Berntsen, Terje Koren Cherian, Regimon Christensen, J. Collins, W. Crepinsek, S Daskalakis, N Flanner, M Herber, Andreas Heyes, C Hodnebrog, Øivind Huang, Lan Kanakidou, M Klimont, Z Langner, J. Law, Katharine S. Lund, Marianne Tronstad Mahmood, R Massling, A Myriokefalitakis, S Nielsen, Izabela Ewa Nøjgaard, J.K. Quaas, Johannes Quinn, Patricia K. Raut, Jean-Christophe Rumbold, Steven T. Schulz, M. Sharma, S Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skov, Henrik Uttal, T von Salzen, Knut Stohl, Andreas |
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Eckhardt, Sabine Quennehen, B. Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo Berntsen, Terje Koren Cherian, Regimon Christensen, J. Collins, W. Crepinsek, S Daskalakis, N Flanner, M Herber, Andreas Heyes, C Hodnebrog, Øivind Huang, Lan Kanakidou, M Klimont, Z Langner, J. Law, Katharine S. Lund, Marianne Tronstad Mahmood, R Massling, A Myriokefalitakis, S Nielsen, Izabela Ewa Nøjgaard, J.K. Quaas, Johannes Quinn, Patricia K. Raut, Jean-Christophe Rumbold, Steven T. Schulz, M. Sharma, S Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skov, Henrik Uttal, T von Salzen, Knut Stohl, Andreas |
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Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set |
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ftnilu:oai:nilu.brage.unit.no:11250/302324 2023-07-30T04:00:07+02:00 Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set Eckhardt, Sabine Quennehen, B. Oliviè, Dirk Jan Leo Berntsen, Terje Koren Cherian, Regimon Christensen, J. Collins, W. Crepinsek, S Daskalakis, N Flanner, M Herber, Andreas Heyes, C Hodnebrog, Øivind Huang, Lan Kanakidou, M Klimont, Z Langner, J. Law, Katharine S. Lund, Marianne Tronstad Mahmood, R Massling, A Myriokefalitakis, S Nielsen, Izabela Ewa Nøjgaard, J.K. Quaas, Johannes Quinn, Patricia K. Raut, Jean-Christophe Rumbold, Steven T. Schulz, M. Sharma, S Skeie, Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skov, Henrik Uttal, T von Salzen, Knut Stohl, Andreas 2015-09-25T10:59:15Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11250/302324 https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9413-2015 eng eng Eckhardt, S., Quennehen, B., Olivié, D. J. L., Berntsen, T. K., Cherian, R., Christensen, J. H., Collins, W., Crepinsek, S., Daskalakis, N., Flanner, M., Herber, A., Heyes, C., Hodnebrog, Ø., Huang, L., Kanakidou, M., Klimont, Z., Langner, J., Law, K. S., Lund, M. T., Mahmood, R., Massling, A., Myriokefalitakis, S., Nielsen, I. E., Nøjgaard, J. K., Quaas, J., Quinn, P. K., Raut, J.-C., Rumbold, S. T., Schulz, M., Sharma, S., Skeie, R. B., Skov, H., Uttal, T., von Salzen, K., Stohl, A. (2015) Current model capabilities for simulating black carbon and sulfate concentrations in the Arctic atmosphere: a multi-model evaluation using a comprehensive measurement data set. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 9413-9433. doi:10.5194/acp-15-9413-2015. urn:issn:1680-7324 http://hdl.handle.net/11250/302324 https://doi.org/doi:10.5194/acp-15-9413-2015 cristin:1267405 Navngivelse 3.0 Norge http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/ 9413-9433 15 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Zeppelinobservatoriet Journal article Peer reviewed 2015 ftnilu https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9413-2015 2023-07-08T19:54:05Z The concentrations of sulfate, black carbon (BC) and other aerosols in the Arctic are characterized by high values in late winter and spring (so-called Arctic Haze) and low values in summer. Models have long been struggling to capture this seasonality and especially the high concentrations associated with Arctic Haze. In this study, we evaluate sulfate and BC concentrations from eleven different models driven with the same emission inventory against a comprehensive pan-Arctic measurement data set over a time period of two years (2008–2009). The set of models consisted of one Lagrangian particle dispersion model, four chemistry-transport models (CTMs), one atmospheric chemistry-weather forecast model and five chemistry-climate models (CCMs), of which two were nudged to meteorological analyses and three were running freely. The measurement data set consisted of surface measurements of equivalent BC (eBC) from five stations (Alert, Barrow, Pallas, Tiksi and Zeppelin), elemental carbon (EC) from Station Nord and Alert and aircraft measurements of refractory BC (rBC) from six different campaigns. We find that the models generally captured the measured eBC/rBC and sulfate concentrations quite well, compared to past comparisons. However, the aerosol seasonality at the surface is still too weak in most models. Concentrations of eBC and sulfate averaged over three surface sites are underestimated in winter/spring in all but one model (model means for January-March underestimated by 59 and 37% for BC and sulfate, respectively), whereas concentrations in summer are overestimated in the model mean (by 88 and 44% for July–September), but with over- as well as underestimates present in individual models. The most pronounced eBC underestimates, not included in the above multi-site average, are found for the station Tiksi in Siberia where the measured annual mean eBC concentration is three times higher than the average annual mean for all other stations. This suggests an underestimate of BC sources in Russia in the emission ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic black carbon Tiksi Siberia NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research: NILU Brage Arctic Station Nord ENVELOPE(-16.663,-16.663,81.599,81.599) Tiksi ENVELOPE(128.867,128.867,71.633,71.633) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 15 16 9413 9433 |