Aerosol–radiation interaction modelling using online coupling between the WRF 3.7.1 meteorological model and the CHIMERE 2016 chemistry-transport model, through the OASIS3-MCT coupler

Briant, Régis; Tuccella, Paolo; Deroubaix, Adrien; Khvorostyanov, Dmitry; Menut, Laurent; Mailler, Sylvain; Turquety, Solène

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-927-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-927-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-927-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 2

Model evaluation paper

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23 Feb 2017

Model evaluation paper |

| 23 Feb 2017

Aerosol–radiation interaction modelling using online coupling between the WRF 3.7.1 meteorological model and the CHIMERE 2016 chemistry-transport model, through the OASIS3-MCT coupler

Régis Briant, Paolo Tuccella, Adrien Deroubaix, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, Laurent Menut, Sylvain Mailler, and Solène Turquety

Data sets

A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 2 W. Skamarock, J. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D. Gill, D. Barker, W. Wang, and J. Powers http://www.wrf-model.org/index.php

OASIS3-MCT User Guide S. Valcke, T. Craig, and L. Coquart https://verc.enes.org/oasis

CHIMERE 2016: From urban to hemispheric chemistry-transport mod (http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/chimere/) S. Mailler, L. Menut, D. Khvorostyanov, M. Valari, F. Couvidat, G. Siour, S. Turquety, R. Briant, P. Tuccella, B. Bessagnet, A. Colette, L. Létinois, and F. Meleux https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2016-196

Short summary

This paper presents the coupling of the CHIMERE chemistry-transport model with the WRF meteorological model, using the OASIS3-MCT coupler. WRF meteorological fields along with CHIMERE aerosol optical properties are exchanged through the coupler at a high frequency in order to model the aerosol direct and semi-direct effects.