Journal article
Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats
ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Vol.17(2), pp.1543-1555
2017
DOI: 10.5194/acp-17-1543-2017
PMCID: PMC5846500
PMID: 29541091
Abstract
We present an overview of the coordinated global numerical modelling experiments performed during 20122016 by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (TF HTAP), the regional experiments by the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) over Europe and North America, and the Model Intercomparison Study for Asia (MICS-Asia). To improve model estimates of the impacts of intercontinental transport of air pollution on climate, ecosystems, and human health and to answer a set of policy-relevant questions, these three initiatives performed emission perturbation modelling experiments consistent across the global, hemispheric, and continental/regional scales. In all three initiatives, model results are extensively compared against monitoring data for a range of variables (meteorological, trace gas concentrations, and aerosol mass and composition) from different measurement platforms (ground measurements, vertical profiles, airborne measurements) collected from a number of sources. Approximately 10 to 25 modelling groups have contributed to each initiative, and model results have been managed centrally through three data hubs maintained by each initiative. Given the organizational complexity of bringing together these three initiatives to address a common set of policy-relevant questions, this publication provides the motivation for the modelling activity, the rationale for specific choices made in the model experiments, and an overview of the organizational structures for both the modelling and the measurements used and analysed in a number of modelling studies in this special issue.
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- Title: Subtitle
- Technical note: Coordination and harmonization of the multi-scale, multi-model activities HTAP2, AQMEII3, and MICS-Asia3: simulations, emission inventories, boundary conditions, and model output formats
- Creators
- S Galmarini - European CommissionB Koffi - European CommissionE Solazzo - European CommissionT Keating - Environmental Protection AgencyC Hogrefe - Research Triangle Park FoundationM Schulz - Norwegian Meteorological InstituteA Benedictow - Norwegian Meteorological InstituteJ J Griesfeller - Norwegian Meteorological InstituteG Janssens-Maenhout - European CommissionG Carmichael - Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of#N#Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USAJ Fu - Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of#N#Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USAF Dentener - European Commission
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS, Vol.17(2), pp.1543-1555
- DOI
- 10.5194/acp-17-1543-2017
- PMID
- 29541091
- PMCID
- PMC5846500
- NLM abbreviation
- Atmos Chem Phys
- ISSN
- 1680-7324
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2017
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Nursing; Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
- Record Identifier
- 9984231960802771
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