Interpretation of measured aerosol mass scattering efficiency over North America using a chemical transport model

Latimer, Robyn N. C.; Martin, Randall V.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2635-2019

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2635-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-2635-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 4

Research article

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28 Feb 2019

Research article |

| 28 Feb 2019

Interpretation of measured aerosol mass scattering efficiency over North America using a chemical transport model

Robyn N. C. Latimer and Randall V. Martin

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AC1: 'Corrections to Figure 3, 4, and 6', Robyn Latimer, 28 Jul 2018
RC1: 'Review for ACP-2018-459', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of “Interpretation of measured aerosol mass scattering efficiency over North America using a chemical transport model” by Latimer and Martin.', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 Aug 2018
AC2: 'Author's response', Robyn Latimer, 29 Oct 2018

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AR by Robyn Latimer on behalf of the Authors (29 Oct 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (03 Dec 2018) by Ashu Dastoor

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (04 Dec 2018)

ED: Publish as is (23 Jan 2019) by Ashu Dastoor

Short summary

Long-term aerosol measurements from the IMPROVE network were used to investigate the simulation of mass scattering efficiency in the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model. The simulation of mass scattering efficiency was developed to better represent observations by refining the representation of aerosol size and hygroscopicity. Simulated average mass scattering efficiency over North America increased by 16 %, with larger increases in northern regions and reductions in the southwest.