Articles | Volume 15, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6311-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-6311-2022
Development and technical paper
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16 Aug 2022
Development and technical paper |  | 16 Aug 2022

Comparison and evaluation of updates to WRF-Chem (v3.9) biogenic emissions using MEGAN

Mauro Morichetti, Sasha Madronich, Giorgio Passerini, Umberto Rizza, Enrico Mancinelli, Simone Virgili, and Mary Barth

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In the present study, we explore the effect of making simple changes to the existing WRF-Chem MEGAN v2.04 emissions to provide MEGAN updates that can be used independently of the land surface model chosen. The changes made to the MEGAN algorithm implemented in WRF-Chem were the following: (i) update of the emission activity factors, (ii) update of emission factor values for each plant functional type (PFT), and (iii) the assignment of the emission factor by PFT to isoprene.