An evaluation of European nitrogen and sulfur wet deposition and their trends estimated by six chemistry transport models for the period 1990–2010

Theobald, Mark R.; Vivanco, Marta G.; Aas, Wenche; Andersson, Camilla; Ciarelli, Giancarlo; Couvidat, Florian; Cuvelier, Kees; Manders, Astrid; Mircea, Mihaela; Pay, Maria-Teresa; Tsyro, Svetlana; Adani, Mario; Bergström, Robert; Bessagnet, Bertrand; Briganti, Gino; Cappelletti, Andrea; D'Isidoro, Massimo; Fagerli, Hilde; Mar, Kathleen; Otero, Noelia; Raffort, Valentin; Roustan, Yelva; Schaap, Martijn; Wind, Peter; Colette, Augustin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-379-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-379-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-379-2019

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

Articles | Volume 19, issue 1

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11 Jan 2019

Research article |

| 11 Jan 2019

An evaluation of European nitrogen and sulfur wet deposition and their trends estimated by six chemistry transport models for the period 1990–2010

Mark R. Theobald, Marta G. Vivanco, Wenche Aas, Camilla Andersson, Giancarlo Ciarelli, Florian Couvidat, Kees Cuvelier, Astrid Manders, Mihaela Mircea, Maria-Teresa Pay, Svetlana Tsyro, Mario Adani, Robert Bergström, Bertrand Bessagnet, Gino Briganti, Andrea Cappelletti, Massimo D'Isidoro, Hilde Fagerli, Kathleen Mar, Noelia Otero, Valentin Raffort, Yelva Roustan, Martijn Schaap, Peter Wind, and Augustin Colette

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RC1: 'Comments on Theobald et al “An evaluation of European nitrogen and sulfur wet deposition and their trends estimated by six chemistry transport models for the period 1990-2010”', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Oct 2018
- AC1: 'Author comments in response to Anonymous Referee #1', Mark Theobald, 28 Nov 2018
- AC2: 'Author comments in response to Anonymous Referee #1', Mark Theobald, 28 Nov 2018
RC2: 'Review of "An evaluation of European nitrogen and sulfur wet deposition and their trends estimated by six chemistry transport models for the period 1990–2010"', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Oct 2018
- AC3: 'Author comments in response to Anonymous Referee #2', Mark Theobald, 28 Nov 2018
AC4: 'Revised manuscript', Mark Theobald, 28 Nov 2018
AC5: 'Revised supplementary material', Mark Theobald, 28 Nov 2018

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Model estimates of the mean European wet deposition of nitrogen and sulfur for 1990 to 2010 were within 40 % of the observed values. As a result of systematic biases, the models were better at estimating relative trends for the periods 1990–2000 and 2000–2010 than the absolute trends. Although the predominantly decreasing trends were mostly due to emission reductions, they were partially offset by other factors (e.g. changes in precipitation) during the first period, but not the second.