Coupling aerosols to (cirrus) clouds in the global  EMAC-MADE3 aerosol–climate  model

Righi, Mattia; Hendricks, Johannes; Lohmann, Ulrike; Beer, Christof Gerhard; Hahn, Valerian; Heinold, Bernd; Heller, Romy; Krämer, Martina; Ponater, Michael; Rolf, Christian; Tegen, Ina; Voigt, Christiane

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1635-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 1635–1661, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1635-2020

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Special issue: The Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy) (ACP/GMD inter-journal...

Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 1635–1661, 2020

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1635-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Model description paper 30 Mar 2020

Model description paper | 30 Mar 2020

Coupling aerosols to (cirrus) clouds in the global EMAC-MADE3 aerosol–climate model

Mattia Righi et al.

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RC1: 'Review of Righi et al., A new approach to simulate aerosol effects on cirrus clouds in EMAC v2.54', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Sep 2019
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2019
RC3: 'Review of "A new approach to simulate aerosol effects on cirrus clouds in EMAC v2.54"', Anonymous Referee #3, 29 Oct 2019
AC1: 'Authors' Replies', Mattia Righi, 30 Jan 2020

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ED: Publish as is (21 Feb 2020) by Samuel Remy

Short summary

A new cloud microphysical scheme is implemented in the global EMAC-MADE3 aerosol model and evaluated. The new scheme features a detailed parameterization for aerosol-driven ice formation in cirrus clouds, accounting for the competition between homogeneous and heterogeneous ice formation processes. The comparison against satellite data and in situ measurements shows that the model performance is in line with similar global coupled models featuring ice cloud parameterizations.