Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats
We present an overview of the coordinated global numerical modelling experiments performed during 2012–2016 by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), the regional experiments by the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) over Europe and...
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| author | S. Galmarini B. Koffi E. Solazzo T. Keating C. Hogrefe M. Schulz A. Benedictow J. J. Griesfeller G. Janssens-Maenhout G. Carmichael J. Fu F. Dentener |
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| description | We present an overview of the coordinated global numerical modelling
experiments performed during 2012–2016 by the Task Force on Hemispheric
Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), the regional experiments by the Air
Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) over Europe and
North America, and the Model Intercomparison Study for Asia (MICS-Asia). To
improve model estimates of the impacts of intercontinental transport of air
pollution on climate, ecosystems, and human health and to answer a set of
policy-relevant questions, these three initiatives performed emission
perturbation modelling experiments consistent across the global, hemispheric,
and continental/regional scales. In all three initiatives, model results are
extensively compared against monitoring data for a range of variables
(meteorological, trace gas concentrations, and aerosol mass and composition)
from different measurement platforms (ground measurements, vertical profiles,
airborne measurements) collected from a number of sources. Approximately 10
to 25 modelling groups have contributed to each initiative, and model results
have been managed centrally through three data hubs maintained by each
initiative. Given the organizational complexity of bringing together these
three initiatives to address a common set of policy-relevant questions, this
publication provides the motivation for the modelling activity, the rationale
for specific choices made in the model experiments, and an overview of the
organizational structures for both the modelling and the measurements used
and analysed in a number of modelling studies in this special issue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3f212acf60c94dcfb5a06ae08d04d2462022-12-21T17:12:51ZengCopernicus PublicationsAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics1680-73161680-73242017-01-011721543155510.5194/acp-17-1543-2017Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formatsS. Galmarini0B. Koffi1E. Solazzo2T. Keating3C. Hogrefe4M. Schulz5A. Benedictow6J. J. Griesfeller7G. Janssens-Maenhout8G. Carmichael9J. Fu10F. Dentener11European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyEnvironmental Protection Agency, Applied Science and Education Division, National Center for Environmental Research, Office of Research and Development, Headquarters, Federal Triangle, Washington, DC 20460, USAEnvironmental Protection Agency, Computational Exposure Division, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USANorwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, NorwayNorwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, NorwayNorwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, NorwayEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyCenter for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USADepartment of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USAEuropean Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, ItalyWe present an overview of the coordinated global numerical modelling experiments performed during 2012–2016 by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), the regional experiments by the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) over Europe and North America, and the Model Intercomparison Study for Asia (MICS-Asia). To improve model estimates of the impacts of intercontinental transport of air pollution on climate, ecosystems, and human health and to answer a set of policy-relevant questions, these three initiatives performed emission perturbation modelling experiments consistent across the global, hemispheric, and continental/regional scales. In all three initiatives, model results are extensively compared against monitoring data for a range of variables (meteorological, trace gas concentrations, and aerosol mass and composition) from different measurement platforms (ground measurements, vertical profiles, airborne measurements) collected from a number of sources. Approximately 10 to 25 modelling groups have contributed to each initiative, and model results have been managed centrally through three data hubs maintained by each initiative. Given the organizational complexity of bringing together these three initiatives to address a common set of policy-relevant questions, this publication provides the motivation for the modelling activity, the rationale for specific choices made in the model experiments, and an overview of the organizational structures for both the modelling and the measurements used and analysed in a number of modelling studies in this special issue.http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/1543/2017/acp-17-1543-2017.pdf |
| spellingShingle | S. Galmarini B. Koffi E. Solazzo T. Keating C. Hogrefe M. Schulz A. Benedictow J. J. Griesfeller G. Janssens-Maenhout G. Carmichael J. Fu F. Dentener Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics |
| title | Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats |
| title_full | Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats |
| title_fullStr | Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats |
| title_full_unstemmed | Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats |
| title_short | Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats |
| title_sort | technical note coordination and harmonization of the multi scale multi model activities htap2 aqmeii3 and mics asia3 simulations emission inventories boundary conditions and model output formats |
| url | http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/17/1543/2017/acp-17-1543-2017.pdf |
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