Geoscientific Model Development
Geoscientific Model Development
GMD
Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5323-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-5323-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 18
Development and technical paper
 | 
19 Sep 2023
Development and technical paper |  | 19 Sep 2023

An optimisation method to improve modelling of wet deposition in atmospheric transport models: applied to FLEXPART v10.4

Stijn Van Leuven, Pieter De Meutter, Johan Camps, Piet Termonia, and Andy Delcloo

Data sets

Flexpart input/output data for "An optimisation method to improve modelling of wet deposition in atmospheric transport models: applied to FLEXPART v10.4" Stijn Van Leuven https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7906927

Model code and software

MATLAB code for "An optimisation method to improve modelling of wet deposition in atmospheric transport models: applied to FLEXPART v10.4" Stijn Van Leuven https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7789039

FLEXPART 10.4. In Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. (10.4) Ignacio Pisso, Espen Sollum, Henrik Grythe, Nina I. Kristiansen, Massimo Cassiani, Sabine Eckhardt, Delia Arnold, Don Morton, Rona L. Thompson, Christine D. Groot Zwaaftink, Nikolaos Evangeliou, Harald Sodemann, Leopold Haimberger, Stephan Henne, Dominik Brunner, John F. Burkhart, Anne Fouilloux, Jerome Brioude, Anne Philipp, Petra Seibert, and Andreas Stohl https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3542278

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Short summary
Precipitation collects airborne particles and deposits these on the ground. This process is called wet deposition and greatly determines how airborne radioactive particles (released routinely or accidentally) contaminate the surface. In this work we present a new method to improve the calculation of wet deposition in computer models. We apply this method to the existing model FLEXPART by simulating the Fukushima nuclear accident (2011) and show that it improves the simulation of wet deposition.
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