A comparison of sea salt emission parameterizations in northwestern Europe using a chemistry transport model setup

Neumann, Daniel; Matthias, Volker; Bieser, Johannes; Aulinger, Armin; Quante, Markus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9905-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9905-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9905-2016

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

Articles | Volume 16, issue 15

Research article

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08 Aug 2016

Research article |

| 08 Aug 2016

A comparison of sea salt emission parameterizations in northwestern Europe using a chemistry transport model setup

Daniel Neumann, Volker Matthias, Johannes Bieser, Armin Aulinger, and Markus Quante

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-9905-2016-supplement

Data sets

The MACC reanalysis: an 8 yr data set of atmospheric composition A. Inness, F. Baier, A. Benedetti, I. Bouarar, S. Chabrillat, H. Clark, C. Clerbaux, P. Coheur, R. J. Engelen, Q. Errera, J. Flemming, M. George, C. Granier, J. Hadji-Lazaro, V. Huijnen, D. Hurtmans, L. Jones, J. W. Kaiser, J. Kapsomenakis, K. Lefever, J. Leitão, M. Razinger, A. Richter, M. G. Schultz, A. J. Simmons, M. Suttie, O. Stein, J.-N. Thépaut, V. Thouret, M. Vrekoussis, C. Zerefos, and the MACC team https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-4073-2013

coastDat-2 COSMO-CLM Atmospheric Reconstruction B. Geyer and B. Rockel https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/coastDat-2_COSMO-CLM

EMEP measurements (atmospheric concentrations, wet deposition, precipitation) EBAS http://ebas.nilu.no

AOD data AERONET http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/data_menu.html

coastDat-2 North Sea wave hindcast for the period 1949–2014 performed with the wave model WAM N. Groll and R. Weisse https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/coastDat-2_WAM-North_Sea

ERA-Interim, 6-hourly ECMWF MARS http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/interim-full-daily/levtype=sfc/

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Atmospheric sea salt particles provide surface area for the condensation of gaseous substances and, thus, impact these substances' atmospheric residence time and chemical reactions. The number and size of sea salt particles govern the strength of these impacts. Therefore, these parameters should be reflected accurately in chemistry transport models. In this study, three different sea salt emission functions are compared in order to evaluate which one is best suited for the given model setup.