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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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 Bereket Habtezion on behalf of the Authors (13 Feb 2015)

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

AR by Bereket Habtezion on behalf of the Authors (10 Mar 2015) Manuscript

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.