WRF-Chem simulations of snow nitrate and other  physicochemical properties in northern China

Wang, Xia; Che, Tao; Ruan, Xueyin; Yue, Shanna; Wang, Jing; Zhao, Chun; Geng, Lei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025

Articles | Volume 18, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 3

Model evaluation paper

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07 Feb 2025

Model evaluation paper |

| 07 Feb 2025

WRF-Chem simulations of snow nitrate and other physicochemical properties in northern China

Xia Wang, Tao Che, Xueyin Ruan, Shanna Yue, Jing Wang, Chun Zhao, and Lei Geng

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025-supplement

Data sets

xwang/wrfchem_ustc3.5: wrfchem_ustc 3.5 including nitrate concentrations in snow Xia Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10586762

The compiled dataset on the physicochemical properties of snow used for evaluation Xia Wang https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10965532

Model code and software

WRF-Chem Source Code NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_source.html

Short summary

We employed the WRF-Chem model to parameterize atmospheric nitrate deposition in snow and evaluate its performance in simulating snow cover, snow depth, and concentrations of dust and nitrate using new observations from northern China. The results generally exhibit reasonable agreement with field observations in northern China, demonstrating the model's capability to simulate snow properties, including concentrations of reservoir species.