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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5775-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-5775-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
| 
04 May 2022
Research article |
| 04 May 2022
| 04 May 2022
Model evaluation of short-lived climate forcers for the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme: a multi-species, multi-model study
Cynthia H. Whaley
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Rashed Mahmood
Department of Earth Science, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Geography, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Knut von Salzen
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Barbara Winter
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada
Sabine Eckhardt
Department for Atmosphere and Climate, NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Stephen Arnold
Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Stephen Beagley
Air Quality Modelling and Integration, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Silvia Becagli
Division for Climate Modelling and Air Pollution, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Rong-You Chien
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Jesper Christensen
Department of Environmental Science/Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 400, Roskilde, Denmark
Sujay Manish Damani
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Xinyi Dong
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Konstantinos Eleftheriadis
Institute of Nuclear and Radiological Science & Technology, Energy & Safety N.C.S.R. “Demokritos”, Attiki, Greece
Nikolaos Evangeliou
Department for Atmosphere and Climate, NILU – Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway
Gregory Faluvegi
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Mark Flanner
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Joshua S. Fu
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Michael Gauss
Division for Climate Modelling and Air Pollution, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Fabio Giardi
Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Wanmin Gong
Air Quality Modelling and Integration, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Jens Liengaard Hjorth
Department of Environmental Science/Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 400, Roskilde, Denmark
Lin Huang
Climate Chemistry Measurements and Research, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Department of Environmental Science/Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 400, Roskilde, Denmark
Yugo Kanaya
Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Srinath Krishnan
CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway
Zbigniew Klimont
Pollution Management Research group, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Thomas Kühn
Department of Applied Physics, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Atmospheric Research Centre of Eastern Finland, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Kuopio, Finland
Joakim Langner
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Kathy S. Law
LATMOS, CNRS-UVSQ-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Louis Marelle
LATMOS, CNRS-UVSQ-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Andreas Massling
Department of Environmental Science/Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 400, Roskilde, Denmark
Dirk Olivié
Division for Climate Modelling and Air Pollution, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Tatsuo Onishi
LATMOS, CNRS-UVSQ-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Naga Oshima
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Yiran Peng
Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
David A. Plummer
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada
Olga Popovicheva
Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Luca Pozzoli
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Jean-Christophe Raut
LATMOS, CNRS-UVSQ-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Maria Sand
CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway
Laura N. Saunders
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Julia Schmale
Extreme Environments Research Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sangeeta Sharma
Climate Chemistry Measurements and Research, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ragnhild Bieltvedt Skeie
CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo, Norway
Henrik Skov
Department of Environmental Science/Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 400, Roskilde, Denmark
Fumikazu Taketani
Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Manu A. Thomas
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Rita Traversi
Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Kostas Tsigaridis
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Svetlana Tsyro
Division for Climate Modelling and Air Pollution, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
Steven Turnock
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Institute of Climate and Atmospheric Science, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Vito Vitale
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
Kaley A. Walker
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Minqi Wang
Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Duncan Watson-Parris
Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Tahya Weiss-Gibbons
Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada
Data sets
NAPS dataset Environment and Climate Change Canada https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/1b36a356-defd-4813-acea-47bc3abd859b
MOPITT dataset UCAR https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/mopitt/products
Model code and software
CanAM5-PAM model code Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and analysis https://gitlab.com/cccma
CESM2 model code UCAR https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/cesm2/
GEOS-Chem model code Harvard University http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/GEOS-Chem_12#12.3.2
GISS-E2.1 model code NASA https://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/modelE/
NorESM model code NorESM Climate Modeling Consortium https://github.com/NorESMhub/NorESM
OsloCTM model code Section for Meteorology and Oceanography (MetOs) https://github.com/NordicESMhub/OsloCTM3
Model evaluation programs C. Whaley, R. Mahmood, and L. Saunders https://gitlab.com/cynwhaley/amap-slcf-model-evaluation
Short summary
Air pollutants, like ozone and soot, play a role in both global warming and air quality. Atmospheric models are often used to provide information to policy makers about current and future conditions under different emissions scenarios. In order to have confidence in those simulations, in this study we compare simulated air pollution from 18 state-of-the-art atmospheric models to measured air pollution in order to assess how well the models perform.
Air pollutants, like ozone and soot, play a role in both global warming and air quality....
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