Articles | Volume 16, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6087-2023
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6087-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model description paper
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01 Nov 2023
Model description paper |
| 01 Nov 2023
| 01 Nov 2023
Description and performance of a sectional aerosol microphysical model in the Community Earth System Model (CESM2)
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Michael J. Mills
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Yunqian Zhu
Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO, USA
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Charles G. Bardeen
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Francis Vitt
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Pengfei Yu
Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
David Fillmore
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA
Xiaohong Liu
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Brian Toon
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Terry Deshler
Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
formerly at: Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
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Short summary
We implemented an alternative aerosol scheme in the high- and low-top model versions of the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2) with a more detailed description of tropospheric and stratospheric aerosol size distributions than the existing aerosol model. This development enables the comparison of different aerosol schemes with different complexity in the same model framework. It identifies improvements compared to a range of observations in both the troposphere and stratosphere.
We implemented an alternative aerosol scheme in the high- and low-top model versions of the...
