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