Description and evaluation of a secondary organic aerosol and new particle formation scheme within TM5-MP v1.2

Bergman, Tommi; Makkonen, Risto; Schrödner, Roland; Swietlicki, Erik; Phillips, Vaughan T. J.; Le Sager, Philippe; van Noije, Twan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-683-2022

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-683-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-683-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 2

Model description paper

|

27 Jan 2022

Model description paper |

| 27 Jan 2022

Description and evaluation of a secondary organic aerosol and new particle formation scheme within TM5-MP v1.2

Tommi Bergman, Risto Makkonen, Roland Schrödner, Erik Swietlicki, Vaughan T. J. Phillips, Philippe Le Sager, and Twan van Noije

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-683-2022-supplement

Data sets

Simulation datasets "Model data for research article "Description and Evaluation of a Secondary Organic Aerosol and New Particle Formation Scheme within TM5-MP v1.2" (Version 1)" Tommi Bergman https://doi.org/10.23729/d7aee953-75f0-41eb-ba50-9b942d6215d3

NCEO partnered datasets CEDA (Centre for Environmental Analysis) http://data.ceda.ac.uk/ neodc/esacci/aerosol/data/AATSR_SU/L2

AERONET GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/webtool\_aod\_v3

MODIS LAADS (Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System) https://ladsweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/search/

Model code and software

TM5-MP model code used for this work Tommi Bergman, Risto Makkonen, Roland Schrödner, Erik Swietlicki, Vaughan T. J. Phillips, Philippe Le Sager, and Twan van Noije https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5559644

Short summary

We describe in this paper the implementation of a process-based secondary organic aerosol and new particle formation scheme within the chemistry transport model TM5-MP version 1.2. The performance of the model simulations for the year 2010 is evaluated against in situ observations, ground-based remote sensing and satellite retrievals. Overall, the simulated aerosol fields are improved, although in some areas the model shows a decline in performance.