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Model evaluation paper
| 
31 Aug 2020
Model evaluation paper |
| 31 Aug 2020
| 31 Aug 2020
Characterizing model errors in chemical transport modeling of methane: impact of model resolution in versions v9-02 of GEOS-Chem and v35j of its adjoint model
Ilya Stanevich
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Dylan B. A. Jones
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Kimberly Strong
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Robert J. Parker
Earth Observation Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Hartmut Boesch
Earth Observation Science, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Debra Wunch
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Justus Notholt
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Christof Petri
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Thorsten Warneke
Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Ralf Sussmann
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Matthias Schneider
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Frank Hase
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-ASF), Karlsruhe, Germany
Rigel Kivi
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Sodankylä, Finland
Nicholas M. Deutscher
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Voltaire A. Velazco
Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Kaley A. Walker
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Feng Deng
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Short summary
Systematic errors in atmospheric models pose a challenge for inverse modeling studies of methane (CH4) emissions. We evaluated the CH4 simulation in the GEOS-Chem model at the horizontal resolutions of 4° × 5° and 2° × 2.5°. Our analysis identified resolution-dependent biases in the model, which we attributed to discrepancies between the two model resolutions in vertical transport in the troposphere and in stratosphere–troposphere exchange.
Systematic errors in atmospheric models pose a challenge for inverse modeling studies of methane...
