Articles | Volume 8, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3747-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-3747-2015
Development and technical paper
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19 Nov 2015
Development and technical paper |  | 19 Nov 2015

Methodology for evaluating lateral boundary conditions in the regional chemical transport model MATCH (v5.5.0) using combined satellite and ground-based observations

E. Andersson, M. Kahnert, and A. Devasthale

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This study investigate the representation of hemispheric transport in a regional chemical transport model (CTM) in terms of lateral boundary conditions (LBCs). We evaluate the LBCs both directly with satellite retrievals and indirectly by forcing a regional CTM with LBCs and compare to in-domain observations. We believe that our work makes an important contribution to the methodology of validating LBCs for regional modelling.
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