Articles | Volume 18, issue 18
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6479-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6479-2025
Model evaluation paper
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26 Sep 2025
Model evaluation paper |  | 26 Sep 2025

Implementation of the MOSAIC aerosol module (v1.0) in the Canadian air quality model GEM-MACH (v3.1)

Kirill Semeniuk, Ashu Dastoor, and Alex Lupu

Model code and software

Implementation of the MOSAIC Aerosol Module in the Canadian Air Quality Model GEM-MACH K. Semeniuk https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13787463

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The Model for Simulating Aerosol Interactions and Chemistry (MOSAIC) inorganic aerosol sub-model has been implemented in the Global Environmental Multiscale – Modeling Air Quality and Chemistry (GEM-MACH) air quality model. MOSAIC includes metal cation reactions and is a non-equilibrium, double-moment scheme that conserves aerosol number. Compared to the current aerosol sub-model, MOSAIC produces a more accurate size distribution and aerosol number concentration. It also improves the simulated nitrate and ammonium distribution. This work serves to expand the capacity of GEM-MACH for chemistry and weather coupling.
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