Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2

<p>Aeolian dust has significant impacts on climate, public health, infrastructure and ecosystems. Assessing dust concentrations and the impacts is challenging because the emissions depend on many environmental factors and can vary greatly with meteorological conditions. We present a data-drive...

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Main Authors: K. Klingmüller, J. Lelieveld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2023-05-01
Series:Geoscientific Model Development
Online Access:https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/3013/2023/gmd-16-3013-2023.pdf
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description <p>Aeolian dust has significant impacts on climate, public health, infrastructure and ecosystems. Assessing dust concentrations and the impacts is challenging because the emissions depend on many environmental factors and can vary greatly with meteorological conditions. We present a data-driven aeolian dust scheme that combines machine learning components and physical equations to predict atmospheric dust concentrations and quantify the sources. The numerical scheme was trained to reproduce dust aerosol optical depth retrievals by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer on board the MetOp-A satellite. The input parameters included meteorological variables from the fifth-generation atmospheric reanalysis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The trained dust scheme can be applied as an emission submodel to be used in climate and Earth system models, which is reproducibly derived from observational data so that a priori assumptions and manual parameter tuning can be largely avoided. We compared the trained emission submodel to a state-of-the-art emission parameterisation, showing that it substantially improves the representation of aeolian dust in the global atmospheric chemistry–climate model EMAC.</p>
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spelling doaj.art-3d252aa032204b35b43c980497d0c41e2023-05-31T13:00:23ZengCopernicus PublicationsGeoscientific Model Development1991-959X1991-96032023-05-01163013302810.5194/gmd-16-3013-2023Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2K. Klingmüller0J. Lelieveld1J. Lelieveld2Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128 Mainz, GermanyDepartment of Atmospheric Chemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Hahn-Meitner-Weg 1, 55128 Mainz, GermanyClimate and Atmosphere Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, P.O. Box 27456, 1645 Nicosia, Cyprus<p>Aeolian dust has significant impacts on climate, public health, infrastructure and ecosystems. Assessing dust concentrations and the impacts is challenging because the emissions depend on many environmental factors and can vary greatly with meteorological conditions. We present a data-driven aeolian dust scheme that combines machine learning components and physical equations to predict atmospheric dust concentrations and quantify the sources. The numerical scheme was trained to reproduce dust aerosol optical depth retrievals by the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer on board the MetOp-A satellite. The input parameters included meteorological variables from the fifth-generation atmospheric reanalysis of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The trained dust scheme can be applied as an emission submodel to be used in climate and Earth system models, which is reproducibly derived from observational data so that a priori assumptions and manual parameter tuning can be largely avoided. We compared the trained emission submodel to a state-of-the-art emission parameterisation, showing that it substantially improves the representation of aeolian dust in the global atmospheric chemistry–climate model EMAC.</p>https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/3013/2023/gmd-16-3013-2023.pdf
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Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
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title Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
title_full Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
title_fullStr Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
title_full_unstemmed Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
title_short Data-driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with EMAC 2.55.2
title_sort data driven aeolian dust emission scheme for climate modelling evaluated with emac 2 55 2
url https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/16/3013/2023/gmd-16-3013-2023.pdf
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