Technical note: Evaluation of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service Cy48R1 upgrade of June 2023

Eskes, Henk; Tsikerdekis, Athanasios; Ades, Melanie; Alexe, Mihai; Benedictow, Anna Carlin; Bennouna, Yasmine; Blake, Lewis; Bouarar, Idir; Chabrillat, Simon; Engelen, Richard; Errera, Quentin; Flemming, Johannes; Garrigues, Sebastien; Griesfeller, Jan; Huijnen, Vincent; Ilić, Luka; Inness, Antje; Kapsomenakis, John; Kipling, Zak; Langerock, Bavo; Mortier, Augustin; Parrington, Mark; Pison, Isabelle; Pitkänen, Mikko; Remy, Samuel; Richter, Andreas; Schoenhardt, Anja; Schulz, Michael; Thouret, Valerie; Warneke, Thorsten; Zerefos, Christos; Peuch, Vincent-Henri

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9475-2024

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Articles | Volume 24, issue 16

Technical note

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29 Aug 2024

Technical note |

| 29 Aug 2024

Technical note: Evaluation of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service Cy48R1 upgrade of June 2023

Henk Eskes, Athanasios Tsikerdekis, Melanie Ades, Mihai Alexe, Anna Carlin Benedictow, Yasmine Bennouna, Lewis Blake, Idir Bouarar, Simon Chabrillat, Richard Engelen, Quentin Errera, Johannes Flemming, Sebastien Garrigues, Jan Griesfeller, Vincent Huijnen, Luka Ilić, Antje Inness, John Kapsomenakis, Zak Kipling, Bavo Langerock, Augustin Mortier, Mark Parrington, Isabelle Pison, Mikko Pitkänen, Samuel Remy, Andreas Richter, Anja Schoenhardt, Michael Schulz, Valerie Thouret, Thorsten Warneke, Christos Zerefos, and Vincent-Henri Peuch

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-9475-2024-supplement

Data sets

CAMS Global Atmospheric Forecasts ECMWF-ADS https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-global-atmospheric-composition-forecasts?tab=overview

Special experiment for the Cy48R1 e-suite on the CAMS AeroVal evaluation server MET Norway https://aeroval.met.no/pages/evaluation/?project=cams2-82&experiment=IFS-ESUITE-Cy48R1

Surface ozone data Global Monitoring Laboratory https://gml.noaa.gov/aftp/data/ozwv/SurfaceOzone/

NOAA Global Monitoring Surface Ozone Network 1973-2014 Audra McClure-Begley et al. https://doi.org/10.7289/V57P8WBF

AERONET AOD and SDA data version 3 level 1.5 NASA-AERONET https://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/new_web/download_all_v3_aod.html

SAGE III/ISS L2 Solar Event Species Profiles (HDF5) V053 NASA/LARC/SD/ASDC https://doi.org/10.5067/ISS/SAGEIII/SOLAR_HDF5_L2-V5.3

MOPITT Derived CO (Thermal Infrared Radiances) V008 NASA/LARC/SD/ASD https://doi.org/10.5067/TERRA/MOPITT/MOP02T_L2.008

MLS/Aura Level 2 Ozone (O3) Mixing Ratio V005 M. Schwartz et al. https://doi.org/10.5067/Aura/MLS/DATA2516

Hourly Data, Pre-Generated Data Files U.S. EPA https://aqs.epa.gov/aqsweb/airdata/download_files.html#Raw

Air quality data for China CNEMC https://quotsoft.net/air/

Hourly air quality data for Europe EEA https://aqportal.discomap.eea.europa.eu

NDACC observational data NDACC https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/ndacc/data.html

NDACC Rapid Delivery (RD) Data Access NDACC-RD https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/missions/ndacc/data.html?RapidDelivery=rd-list

ACE-FTS data ACE/SCISAT https://databace.scisat.ca/level2/ace_v5.2/display_data.php

OMPS v2.6 ozone data NASA/OMPS/NPP/LP https://omps.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/SNPP_OMPS_Level2/OMPS_NPP_LP_L2_O3_DAILY.2.6

IAGOS Observational Data NRT – Time series and vertical profiles Damien Boulanger et al. https://doi.org/10.25326/704

IASI PORTAL – Atmospheric composition data products IASI/Metop https://iasi.aeris-data.fr/catalog

Spectral UV EUVDB http://uvdb.fmi.fi/uvdb/index.html

UV Index CliFlo https://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/

Model code and software

metno/pyaerocom (0.20.0) Norwegian Meteorological Institute - AeroTools https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13270713

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The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) provides global analyses and forecasts of aerosols and trace gases in the atmosphere. On 27 June 2023 a major upgrade, Cy48R1, became operational. Comparisons with in situ, surface remote sensing, aircraft, and balloon and satellite observations show that the new CAMS system is a significant improvement. The results quantify the skill of CAMS to forecast impactful events, such as wildfires, dust storms and air pollution peaks.