Evaluation of the performance of four chemical transport models in  predicting the aerosol chemical composition in Europe in 2005

Prank, Marje; Sofiev, Mikhail; Tsyro, Svetlana; Hendriks, Carlijn; Semeena, Valiyaveetil; Vazhappilly Francis, Xavier; Butler, Tim; Denier van der Gon, Hugo; Friedrich, Rainer; Hendricks, Johannes; Kong, Xin; Lawrence, Mark; Righi, Mattia; Samaras, Zissis; Sausen, Robert; Kukkonen, Jaakko; Sokhi, Ranjeet

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6041-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6041-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6041-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

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18 May 2016

Research article |

| 18 May 2016

Evaluation of the performance of four chemical transport models in predicting the aerosol chemical composition in Europe in 2005

Marje Prank, Mikhail Sofiev, Svetlana Tsyro, Carlijn Hendriks, Valiyaveetil Semeena, Xavier Vazhappilly Francis, Tim Butler, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Rainer Friedrich, Johannes Hendricks, Xin Kong, Mark Lawrence, Mattia Righi, Zissis Samaras, Robert Sausen, Jaakko Kukkonen, and Ranjeet Sokhi

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- AC2: 'Answer to the comments of Anonymous Referee #1', M. Prank, 13 Apr 2016

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Aerosol composition in Europe was simulated by four chemistry transport models and compared to observations to identify the most prominent areas for model improvement. Notable differences were found between the models' predictions, attributable to different treatment or omission of aerosol sources and processes. All models underestimated the observed concentrations by 10–60 %, mostly due to under-predicting the carbonaceous and mineral particles and omitting the aerosol-bound water.