Modelling mineral dust emissions and atmospheric dispersion with MADE3 in EMAC v2.54

Beer, Christof G.; Hendricks, Johannes; Righi, Mattia; Heinold, Bernd; Tegen, Ina; Groß, Silke; Sauer, Daniel; Walser, Adrian; Weinzierl, Bernadett

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4287-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-4287-2020

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Model evaluation paper

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16 Sep 2020

Model evaluation paper |

| 16 Sep 2020

Modelling mineral dust emissions and atmospheric dispersion with MADE3 in EMAC v2.54

Christof G. Beer, Johannes Hendricks, Mattia Righi, Bernd Heinold, Ina Tegen, Silke Groß, Daniel Sauer, Adrian Walser, and Bernadett Weinzierl

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SC1: 'executive editor comment on gmd-2020-82', Astrid Kerkweg, 23 Apr 2020
- AC1: 'Authors reply to SC1', Christof Gerhard Beer, 17 Jul 2020
RC1: 'Comments on manuscript “Mineral dust modelling with MADE3 in EMAC v2.54” by C.G. Beer et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 09 Jun 2020
RC2: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 09 Jun 2020
RC3: 'Review of manuscript gmd-2020-82', Anonymous Referee #3, 18 Jun 2020
AC2: 'Authors response to RC1, RC2, RC3', Christof Gerhard Beer, 17 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Christof Beer on behalf of the Authors (17 Jul 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Jul 2020) by Samuel Remy

AR by Christof Beer on behalf of the Authors (04 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Mineral dust aerosol plays an important role in the climate system. Previously, dust emissions have often been represented in global models by prescribed monthly-mean emission fields representative of a specific year. We now apply an online calculation of wind-driven dust emissions. This results in an improved agreement with observations, due to a better representation of the highly variable dust emissions. Increasing the model resolution led to an additional performance gain.