Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-651-2025
Model evaluation paper
 | 
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

Related authors

Comprehensive evaluation of iAMAS (v1.0) in simulating Antarctic meteorological fields with observations and reanalysis
Qike Yang, Chun Zhao, Jiawang Feng, Gudongze Li, Jun Gu, Zihan Xia, Mingyue Xu, and Zining Yang
Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 5373–5396, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-5373-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-5373-2025, 2025
Short summary
Modeling urban pollutant transport at multiple resolutions: impacts of turbulent mixing
Zining Yang, Qiuyan Du, Qike Yang, Chun Zhao, Gudongze Li, Zihan Xia, Mingyue Xu, Renmin Yuan, Yubin Li, Kaihui Xia, Jun Gu, and Jiawang Feng
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 8831–8857, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8831-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-8831-2025, 2025
Short summary
Toward a learnable Artificial Intelligence Model for Aerosol Chemistry and Interactions (AIMACI) based on the Multi-Head Self-Attention algorithm
Zihan Xia, Chun Zhao, Zining Yang, Qiuyan Du, Jiawang Feng, Chen Jin, Jun Shi, and Hong An
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 6197–6218, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6197-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-6197-2025, 2025
Short summary
A 60-year atmospheric nitrate isotope record from a southeastern Greenland ice core with minimal postdepositional alteration
Zhao Wei, Shohei Hattori, Asuka Tsuruta, Zhuang Jiang, Sakiko Ishino, Koji Fujita, Sumito Matoba, Lei Geng, Alexis Lamothe, Ryu Uemura, Naohiro Yoshida, Joel Savarino, and Yoshinori Iizuka
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 5727–5742, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5727-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5727-2025, 2025
Short summary
Impact of tropical oceans on dipole-like surface mass balance trends in West Antarctica
Kai Man, Xichen Li, Jürg Luterbacher, Lei Geng, Naiming Yuan, Yurong Hou, Yonghao Wang, and Yujie Miao
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1381,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-1381, 2025
Preprint archived
Short summary

Cited articles

Akter, S., Lamancusa, C., Naranjo-Soledad, A., Rumsey, S., Chen, X., and Wagstrom, K.: Regional evaluation and estimates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition for United States hydrologic units and ecoregions, Atmos. Environ., 315, 120149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2023.120149, 2023. 
An, Y., Xu, J., Liu, Y., Li, X., Zhao, H., and Kang, S.: Concentrations, Compositions, and Deposition Rates of Dissolved Nitrogen in Western China: Insights From Snow Records, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, 827456, https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.827456, 2022. 
Barbero, A., Savarino, J., Grilli, R., Blouzon, C., Picard, G., Frey, M. M., Huang, Y., and Caillon, N.: New Estimation of the NOx Snow-Source on the Antarctic Plateau, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 126, e2021JD035062, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035062, 2021.  
Berg, J., Reynolds, D., Quéno, L., Jonas, T., Lehning, M., and Mott, R.: A seasonal snowpack model forced with dynamically downscaled forcing data resolves hydrologically relevant accumulation patterns, Frontiers in Earth Science, 12, 1393260, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1393260, 2024. 
Binkowski, F. S. and Shankar, U.: The Regional Particulate Matter Model: 1. Model description and preliminary results, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 100, 26191–26209, https://doi.org/10.1029/95JD02093, 1995. 
Download
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.
Share