Gabriele Curci

CETEMPS Univ. LAquila

gabriele.curci@aquila.infn.it
4
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GEOS-Chem Users Meeting, Harvard University, April 7-10 2009
Gas & Aerosol boundary
conditions to Chimere from
GEOS-Chem
With inputs from: Walter Di Nicolantonio and Alessandra Cacciari (CGS/CNR)
Boundary Conditions in regional CTMs
Chimere BCs from GEOS-Chem
Harvard University, 4/14/09
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Domain of the
regional model
(e.g. Chimere)
Longitude
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NORTH
EAST WEST
SOUTH
BCs are
implemented as
concentrations
specified at domain
edges and
trasported inside by
winds
TOP
Standard BCs to Chimere CTM
Chimere BCs from GEOS-Chem
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MONTHLY mean climatologies from global models
Gas
LMDz-INCA
Aerosol
GOCART
What is the impact of BCs?
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Test:
CTRL = reference run
NOBC = run w/ BC=0
Results for Ozone:
Influence of BC expands
from boudaries to the
center in about 10 days
BC contribute to a
background of 50-60 ppbv
Importance of BC
depends on local
photochemistry activity
Using GEOS-Chem hourly output for
Chimere Boundary Conditions
GEOS-Chem v. 8-01-02
GEOS-4, 4x5 30 levs
Dust emissions: scheme implemented
by Duncan et al. [2007], with DEAD
emissions
Saharan emissions reduced by a
factor of 3 following Generoso et al.
[2008]
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Effect of hourly BCs on Chimere O3
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EMEP
average
Chimere w/
Monthly BCs
Chimere w/
Hourly BCs
Only marginal
improvement:
Bias +0.3 ppb
RMS -0.2 ppb
r +0.02
Anthropogenic vs Natural PM10 in
Europe (year 2003)
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Anthropogenic PM10 Natural/Biogenic PM10
!g/m
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Chimere model results [Curci et al., in preparation]
Saharan dust event July 27-29, 2005
MODIS AOT 550 nm
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27/07 28/07 29/07
Saharan dust event July 27-29, 2005
Images from SEVIRI/MSG
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Sequence of RGB images composite with Brightness Temperatures Differences using
InfraRed SEVIRI channels (IR 8.7, IR10.8, IR 12.0) : DUST appears Magenta
Saharan dust event July 27-29, 2005
GEOS-Chem hourly BCs to CHIMERE
Chimere BCs from GEOS-Chem
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Effect of hourly BCs on Chimere PM10
Comparison with EMEP ground obs
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EMEP
average
Chimere w/
std BCs
Chimere w/
Monthly BCs
Chimere w/
Daily BCs
Chimere w/
Hourly BCs
Viznar (ES) 03W Chaumont (CH) 07E
Ispra (IT) 09E Iskrba (SI) 14E
27/07
28/07
29/07
30/07
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Conclusions on preliminary results:
Regional ozone simulation not really sensitive to BC details
Regional PM simulation very sensitive to Saharan dust
events ! interesting to account for natural PM10
excedances
Follow ups of this work:
Comparison with ground data with PM speciation info (e.g.
separate contribution from dust)
Comparison with AERONET: AOD at other wavelengths?
Test higher GEOS-Chem resolution (2x2.5)
More episodes and statistics on the longer term
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Implementation of GEOS-Chem BCs to
CHIMERE CTM
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GEOS-Chem
global CTM
ts_YYYYMMDD.bpch
ts_YYYYMMDD.bpch
ts_YYYYMMDD.bpch
ts_YYYYMMDD.bpch
src/prep/
prep_boun.f90
INI_CONCS.nc BOUN_CONCS.nc
Chimere core
(Version 2008b)
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FILES
Existing CODE
New CODE
Hourly or daily
GE
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S-Chem timeseries
gas & aerosol
(binary format)"
Chimere
pre-processing
Hourly
Chimere
BC at domain edges
(netCDF)"
If .not.
conse-
cutive
run