Will a perfect model agree with perfect observations? The impact of spatial sampling

Schutgens, Nick A. J.; Gryspeerdt, Edward; Weigum, Natalie; Tsyro, Svetlana; Goto, Daisuke; Schulz, Michael; Stier, Philip

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6335-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6335-2016

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-6335-2016

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

Articles | Volume 16, issue 10

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24 May 2016

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Will a perfect model agree with perfect observations? The impact of spatial sampling

Nick A. J. Schutgens, Edward Gryspeerdt, Natalie Weigum, Svetlana Tsyro, Daisuke Goto, Michael Schulz, and Philip Stier

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Spatio-temporal variability in aerosol Nick Schutgens https://doi.org/10.5446/18550

Short summary

We show that evaluating global aerosol model data with observations of very different spatial scales (200 vs. 10 km) can lead to large discrepancies, solely due to different spatial sampling. Strategies for reducing these sampling errors are developed and tested using a set of high-resolution model simulations.