Sensitivity of aerosol optical properties to the aerosol size distribution over central Europe and the Mediterranean Basin using the WRF-Chem v.3.9.1.1 coupled model

Palacios-Peña, Laura; Fast, Jerome D.; Pravia-Sarabia, Enrique; Jiménez-Guerrero, Pedro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5897-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5897-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5897-2020

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

Model evaluation paper

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30 Nov 2020

Model evaluation paper |

| 30 Nov 2020

Sensitivity of aerosol optical properties to the aerosol size distribution over central Europe and the Mediterranean Basin using the WRF-Chem v.3.9.1.1 coupled model

Laura Palacios-Peña, Jerome D. Fast, Enrique Pravia-Sarabia, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero

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RC1: 'Sensitivity of aerosol optical properties to the aerosol size distribution over central Europe and the Mediterranean Basin', Anonymous Referee #1, 15 Jul 2020
RC2: 'Review of "Sensitivity of aerosol optical properties to the aerosol size distribution over central Europe and the Mediterranean Basin" by L. Palacios-Pena et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Aug 2020
AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Laura Palacios-Peña, 28 Sep 2020

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Oct 2020) by Augustin Colette

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AR by Laura Palacios-Peña on behalf of the Authors (23 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

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The main objective of this work is to study the impact of the representation of aerosol size distribution on aerosol optical properties over central Europe and the Mediterranean Basin during a summertime aerosol episode using the WRF-Chem online model. Results reveal that the reduction in the standard deviation of the accumulation mode leads to the largest impacts on aerosol optical depth (AOD) representation due to a transfer of particles from the accumulation mode to the coarse mode.