Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v5.0 against size-resolved measurements of inorganic particle composition across sites in North America

Nolte, C. G.; Appel, K. W.; Kelly, J. T.; Bhave, P. V.; Fahey, K. M.; Collett, J. L. Jr.; Zhang, L.; Young, J. O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2877-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2877-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2877-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 8, issue 9

Development and technical paper

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15 Sep 2015

Development and technical paper |

| 15 Sep 2015

Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model v5.0 against size-resolved measurements of inorganic particle composition across sites in North America

C. G. Nolte, K. W. Appel, J. T. Kelly, P. V. Bhave, K. M. Fahey, J. L. Collett Jr., L. Zhang, and J. O. Young

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RC C1307: 'Review Nolte et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 05 Jul 2015
- AC C1807: 'reply to anonymous referee #1', Chris Nolte, 29 Aug 2015
RC C1567: 'Referee comments to Nolte et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Aug 2015
- AC C1815: 'reply to anonymous referee #2', Chris Nolte, 29 Aug 2015

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ED: Publish as is (01 Sep 2015) by Gerd A. Folberth

AR by Chris Nolte on behalf of the Authors (01 Sep 2015)

Short summary

This study is the most comprehensive evaluation of CMAQ inorganic aerosol size-composition distributions conducted to date. We compare two methods of inferring PM2.5 concentrations from the model: (1) based on the sum of the masses in the fine aerosol modes, as is most commonly done in CMAQ model evaluation; and (2) computed using the simulated size distributions. Differences are generally less than 1 microgram/m3, and are largest over the eastern USA during the summer.