Improving annual fine mineral dust representation from the surface to the column in GEOS-Chem 14.4.1
Dandan Zhang,Randall V. Martin,Xuan Liu,Aaron van Donkelaar,Christopher R. Oxford,Yanshun Li,Jun Meng,Danny M. Leung,Jasper F. Kok,Longlei Li,Haihui Zhu,Jay R. Turner,Yu Yan,Michael Brauer,Yinon Rudich,and Eli Windwer
Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado 80301, United States
This study develops the fine mineral dust simulation in GEOS-Chem by: 1) implementing a new dust emission scheme with further refinements; 2) revisiting the size distribution of emitted dust; 3) explicitly tracking fine dust for emission, transport and deposition in 4 size bins; 4) updating the parametrization for below-cloud scavenging. All revisions significantly reduce the overestimation of surface fine dust from 94 % to 35 % while retaining comparable skill in representing columnar abundance.
This study develops the fine mineral dust simulation in GEOS-Chem by: 1) implementing a new dust...