Dry deposition parameterization in a chemistry general circulation model and its influence on the distribution of reactive trace gases

1995 ◽  
Vol 100 (D10) ◽  
pp. 20999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurens Ganzeveld ◽  
Jos Lelieveld
Keyword(s):  
General Circulation Model ◽  
Dry Deposition ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Trace Gases ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Reactive Trace Gases

scholarly journals A revised dry deposition scheme for land–atmosphere exchange of trace gases in ECHAM/MESSy v2.54

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 495-519
Author(s):  
Tamara Emmerichs ◽  
Astrid Kerkweg ◽  
Huug Ouwersloot ◽  
Silvano Fares ◽  
Ivan Mammarella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dry Deposition ◽  
Tropospheric Ozone ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Trace Gases ◽  
Stomatal Closure ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
Global Models ◽  
Ground Level Ozone

Abstract. Dry deposition to vegetation is a major sink of ground-level ozone and is responsible for about 20 % of the total tropospheric ozone loss. Its parameterization in atmospheric chemistry models represents a significant source of uncertainty for the global tropospheric ozone budget and might account for the mismatch with observations. The model used in this study, the Modular Earth Submodel System version 2 (MESSy2) linked to the fifth-generation European Centre Hamburg general circulation model (ECHAM5) as an atmospheric circulation model (EMAC), is no exception. Like many global models, EMAC employs a “resistance in series” scheme with the major surface deposition via plant stomata which is hardly sensitive to meteorology, depending only on solar radiation. Unlike many global models, however, EMAC uses a simplified high resistance for non-stomatal deposition which makes this pathway negligible in the model. However, several studies have shown this process to be comparable in magnitude to the stomatal uptake, especially during the night over moist surfaces. Hence, we present here a revised dry deposition in EMAC including meteorological adjustment factors for stomatal closure and an explicit cuticular pathway. These modifications for the three stomatal stress functions have been included in the newly developed MESSy VERTEX submodel, i.e. a process model describing the vertical exchange in the atmospheric boundary layer, which will be evaluated for the first time here. The scheme is limited by a small number of different surface types and generalized parameters. The MESSy submodel describing the dry deposition of trace gases and aerosols (DDEP) has been revised accordingly. The comparison of the simulation results with measurement data at four sites shows that the new scheme enables a more realistic representation of dry deposition. However, the representation is strongly limited by the local meteorology. In total, the changes increase the dry deposition velocity of ozone up to a factor of 2 globally, whereby the highest impact arises from the inclusion of cuticular uptake, especially over moist surfaces. This corresponds to a 6 % increase of global annual dry deposition loss of ozone resulting globally in a slight decrease of ground-level ozone but a regional decrease of up to 25 %. The change of ozone dry deposition is also reasoned by the altered loss of ozone precursors. Thus, the revision of the process parameterization as documented here has, among others, the potential to significantly reduce the overestimation of tropospheric ozone in global models.

An eddy-permitting ocean-sea ice general circulation model (E3SMv0-HiLAT03): Description and evaluation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiaxu Zhang ◽  
Wilbert Weijer ◽  
Mathew Einar Maltrud ◽  
Carmela Veneziani ◽  
Nicole Jeffery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
General Circulation Model ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Circulation Model
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