Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-671-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-671-2016
Development and technical paper
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18 Feb 2016
Development and technical paper |  | 18 Feb 2016

Decadal evaluation of regional climate, air quality, and their interactions over the continental US and their interactions using WRF/Chem version 3.6.1

Khairunnisa Yahya, Kai Wang, Patrick Campbell, Timothy Glotfelty, Jian He, and Yang Zhang

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (03 Jan 2016) by Volker Grewe
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Short summary
The Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF/Chem) v3.6.1 is evaluated for its first decadal application during 2001 to 2010 using the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 emissions. The model evaluation shows acceptable performance for long-term climatological simulations of most meteorological variables and chemical concentrations. Larger biases exist for aerosol-cloud-radiation variables, which future model improvement should focus on.