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Development and technical paper
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10 Feb 2017
Development and technical paper |
| 10 Feb 2017
Description and evaluation of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH) version 1.0: gas-phase chemistry at global scale
Alba Badia
Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
now at: Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Apostolos Voulgarakis
Department of Physics, Imperial College, London, UK
Donald Dabdub
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine, USA
Carlos Pérez García-Pando
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Department of Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University, New York, USA
now at: Earth Sciences Department, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Andreas Hilboll
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
María Gonçalves
Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Project and Construction Engineering Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Zavisa Janjic
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, College Park, MD, USA
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This paper presents a comprehensive description and benchmark evaluation of the tropospheric gas-phase chemistry component of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH), an online chemical weather prediction system conceived for both the regional and global scales. We provide an extensive evaluation of a global annual cycle simulation using a variety of background surface stations, ozonesondes, aircraft data and satellite observations.
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