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- Title
Grid-independent high-resolution dust emissions (v1.0) for chemical transport models: application to GEOS-Chem (12.5.0).
- Authors
Meng, Jun; Martin, Randall V.; Ginoux, Paul; Hammer, Melanie; Sulprizio, Melissa P.; Ridley, David A.; van Donkelaar, Aaron
- Abstract
The nonlinear dependence of the dust saltation process on wind speed poses a challenge for models of varying resolutions. This challenge is of particular relevance for the next generation of chemical transport models with nimble capability for multiple resolutions. We develop and apply a method to harmonize dust emissions across simulations of different resolutions by generating offline grid-independent dust emissions driven by native high-resolution meteorological fields. We implement into the GEOS-Chem chemical transport model a high-resolution dust source function to generate updated offline dust emissions. These updated offline dust emissions based on high-resolution meteorological fields strengthen dust emissions over relatively weak dust source regions, such as in southern South America, southern Africa and the southwestern United States. Identification of an appropriate dust emission strength is facilitated by the resolution independence of offline emissions. We find that the performance of simulated aerosol optical depth (AOD) versus measurements from the AERONET network and satellite remote sensing improves significantly when using the updated offline dust emissions with the total global annual dust emission strength of 2000 Tgyr-1 rather than the standard online emissions in GEOS-Chem. The updated simulation also better represents in situ measurements from a global climatology. The offline high-resolution dust emissions are easily implemented in chemical transport models. The source code and global offline high-resolution dust emission inventory are publicly available.
- Subjects
CHEMICAL models; EMISSION inventories; GENERATING functions; WIND speed; DUST; REMOTE sensing; MINERAL dusts
- Publication
Geoscientific Model Development, 2021, Vol 14, Issue 7, p4249
- ISSN
1991-959X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/gmd-14-4249-2021