Aerosol specification in single-column Community Atmosphere Model version 5

Lebassi-Habtezion, B.; Caldwell, P. M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-817-2015

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-817-2015

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-817-2015

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

Articles | Volume 8, issue 3

Development and technical paper

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27 Mar 2015

Development and technical paper |

| 27 Mar 2015

Aerosol specification in single-column Community Atmosphere Model version 5

B. Lebassi-Habtezion and P. M. Caldwell

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Preprint (discussion started on 17 Nov 2014)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C2589: 'REVIEW OF "Aerosol specification in single-column CAM5"', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Dec 2014
- AC C3343: 'Re: Responses to comments on “Aerosol specification in single-column CAM5” by B. Lebassi-Habtezion and P. Caldwell', Bereket Habtezion, 12 Feb 2015
RC C2917: 'Review on Habtezion and Caldwell study', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 Jan 2015
- AC C3345: 'Re: Responses to comments on “Aerosol specification in single-column CAM5” by B. Lebassi-Habtezion and P. Caldwell', Bereket Habtezion, 12 Feb 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (16 Feb 2015) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Mar 2015) by Richard Neale

Short summary

In this study we explore the problem in running default CAM5-SCM, which initializes the aerosol to zero, and test three potential fixes in four different cloud regimes: DYCOMSRF02, MPACE-B, RICO, and ARM95. Stratiform cloud cases (DYCOMS RF02 and MPACE-B) were found to have a strong dependence on aerosol concentration, while convective cases (RICO and ARM95) were relatively insensitive to aerosol specification.