Global aerosol modeling with MADE3 (v3.0) in EMAC (based on v2.53): model description and evaluation

Kaiser, J. Christopher; Hendricks, Johannes; Righi, Mattia; Jöckel, Patrick; Tost, Holger; Kandler, Konrad; Weinzierl, Bernadett; Sauer, Daniel; Heimerl, Katharina; Schwarz, Joshua P.; Perring, Anne E.; Popp, Thomas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-541-2019

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Model description paper

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Model description paper |

| 01 Feb 2019

Global aerosol modeling with MADE3 (v3.0) in EMAC (based on v2.53): model description and evaluation

J. Christopher Kaiser, Johannes Hendricks, Mattia Righi, Patrick Jöckel, Holger Tost, Konrad Kandler, Bernadett Weinzierl, Daniel Sauer, Katharina Heimerl, Joshua P. Schwarz, Anne E. Perring, and Thomas Popp

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-541-2019-supplement

Data sets

Evaluation of the global aerosol model EMAC-MADE3 in the uncoupled version - monthly data Mattia Righi https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EMAC-MADE3_monthly

Evaluation of the global aerosol model EMAC-MADE3 in the uncoupled version - 12 h data Mattia Righi https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/EMAC-MADE3_12h

Short summary

The implementation of the aerosol microphysics submodel MADE3 into the global atmospheric chemistry model EMAC is described and evaluated against an extensive pool of observational data, focusing on aerosol mass and number concentrations, size distributions, composition, and optical properties. EMAC (MADE3) is able to reproduce main aerosol properties reasonably well, in line with the performance of other global aerosol models.