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Can a 'state of the art' chemistry transport model really simulate Amazonian tropospheric chemistry?: High-Resolution Chemistry Model Simulations and Analysis
Abstract
The Quantifying the Amazon Isoprene Budget: Reconciling Top-down versus Bottom-up Emission Estimates project produced a unique high resolution model (GEOS-Chem version v8-03-01 - with modifications) for the Amazon, which simulated isoprene emissions and atmospheric chemistry. Model outputs associated with Barkley et al. publication is available through CEDA-BADC.
An evaluation of a nested high-resolution Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS)-Chem chemistry transport model simulation of tropospheric chemistry over tropical South America is presented. The model has been constrained with two isoprene emission inventories:
(1) the canopy-scale Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN) and
(2) a leaf-scale algorithm coupled to the Lund-Potsdam-Jena General Ecosystem Simulator (LPJ-GUESS) dynamic vegetation model, and the model has been run using two different chemical mechanisms that contain alternative treatments of isoprene photo-oxidation.
The publication is:
Barkley, M. P., P. I. Palmer, L. Ganzeveld , A. Arneth , D. Hagberg , T. Karl , A. Guenther ,
F. Paulot , P. Wennberg , J. Mao , T. Kurosu , K. Chance , J.-F. Muller, I. De Smedt , M. Van Roozendael , D. Chen , Y. Wang , R. Yantosca, Can a 'state of the art' chemistry transport model really simulate
Amazonian tropospheric chemistry?, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D16302, doi:10.1029/2011JD015893, 2011
This is a NERC funded project.
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http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__ACTIVITY_490e27e6-4209-11e4-908d-00163e251233
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| Data lineage: |
Data provided as is by M. Barkley in 2014. |
| File Format: |
Typically GEOS-Chem binary-punch outputs *.bpch.
Other files are straight binary ending in *.bin.
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Process overview
| Title | Quantifying the Amazon Isoprene Budget: GEOS-Chem Chemistry Transport Model |
| Abstract | GEOS-Chem Chemistry Transport Model. The nest-grid has a horizontal resolution of 0.667° × 0.5° (longitude × latitude), and 47 vertical levels extending from the surface to 0.01 hPa. The model is driven using GEOS-5 meteorology, which is updated every 3–6 hours. Tracer mixing ratios from an off-line global 4° × 5° simulation provide 3-hourly boundary conditions to the grid-edges. Based on a previous model evaluation [Barkley et al., 2011], we use an updated chemical mechanism to simulate O3-NOx-VOC-aerosol photochemistry. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- long_name: Isoprene
- names: Isoprene
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
2005-01-01T00:00:00
2008-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent
14.0000° |
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-85.0000° |
-30.0000° |
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-25.0000° |