Articles | Volume 18, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3877-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-3877-2025
Model description paper
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30 Jun 2025
Model description paper |  | 30 Jun 2025

ICON-HAM-lite 1.0: simulating the Earth system with interactive aerosols at kilometer scales

Philipp Weiss, Ross Herbert, and Philip Stier

Data sets

Data for "ICON-HAM-lite: simulating the Earth system with interactive aerosols at kilometer scales" Philipp Weiss et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14393773

Model code and software

Code for "ICON-HAM-lite: simulating the Earth system with interactive aerosols at kilometer scales" Philipp Weiss et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14335069

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Short summary
Aerosols strongly influence Earth's climate as they interact with radiation and clouds. New Earth system models run at resolutions of a few kilometers. To simulate the Earth system with interactive aerosols, we developed a new aerosol module. It represents aerosols as an ensemble of lognormal modes with given sizes and compositions. We present a year-long simulation with four modes at a resolution of 5 km. It captures key processes like the formation of dust storms in the Sahara.
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