Sensitivity of biogenic volatile organic compounds to land surface  parameterizations and vegetation distributions in California

Zhao, Chun; Huang, Maoyi; Fast, Jerome D.; Berg, Larry K.; Qian, Yun; Guenther, Alex; Gu, Dasa; Shrivastava, Manish; Liu, Ying; Walters, Stacy; Pfister, Gabriele; Jin, Jiming; Shilling, John E.; Warneke, Carsten

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1959-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-1959-2016

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27 May 2016

Development and technical paper |

| 27 May 2016

Sensitivity of biogenic volatile organic compounds to land surface parameterizations and vegetation distributions in California

Chun Zhao, Maoyi Huang, Jerome D. Fast, Larry K. Berg, Yun Qian, Alex Guenther, Dasa Gu, Manish Shrivastava, Ying Liu, Stacy Walters, Gabriele Pfister, Jiming Jin, John E. Shilling, and Carsten Warneke

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RC1: 'Review of the paper “Sensitivity of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) to land surface parameterizations and vegetation distributions in California” by Zhao and coworkers.', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Feb 2016
RC2: 'Reviewer Comment', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Apr 2016
AC1: 'Responses to the comments from all the referees', Chun Zhao, 29 Apr 2016

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AR by Chun Zhao on behalf of the Authors (29 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 May 2016) by Gerd A. Folberth

AR by Chun Zhao on behalf of the Authors (11 May 2016)

Short summary

In this study, the latest version of MEGAN is coupled within CLM4 in WRF-Chem. In this implementation, MEGAN shares a consistent vegetation map with CLM4. This improved modeling framework is used to investigate the impact of two land surface schemes on BVOCs and examine the sensitivity of BVOCs to vegetation distributions in California. This study indicates that more effort is needed to obtain the most appropriate and accurate land cover data sets for climate and air quality models.