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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Implementation and evaluation of online gas-phase chemistry within a regional climate model (RegCM-CHEM4)
Geoscientific Model Development, Volume 5, No. 3, Year 2012
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Description
The RegCM-CHEM4 is a new online climate-chemistry model based on the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) regional climate model (RegCM4). Tropospheric gas-phase chemistry is integrated into the climate model using the condensed version of the Carbon Bond Mechanism (CBM-Z; Zaveri and Peters, 1999) with a fast solver based on radical balances. We evaluate the model over continental Europe for two different time scales: (1) an event-based analysis of the ozone episode associated with the heat wave of August 2003 and (2) a climatological analysis of a six-year simulation (2000-2005). For the episode analysis, model simulations show good agreement with European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) observations of hourly ozone over different regions in Europe and capture ozone concentrations during and after the summer 2003 heat wave event. For long-term climate simulations, the model captures the seasonal cycle of ozone concentrations with some over prediction of ozone concentrations in non-heat wave summers. Overall, the ozone and ozone precursor evaluation shows the feasibility of using RegCM-CHEM4 for decadal-length simulations of chemistry-climate interactions. © Author(s) 2012.
Authors & Co-Authors
Shalaby, Amer S.
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Egypt, Cairo
Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Zakey, Ashraf Saber
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Egypt, Cairo
Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Denmark, Copenhagen
Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
Tawfik, Ahmed B.
United States, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Solmon, Fabien
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Giorgi, Filippo
Italy, Trieste
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Stordal, Frode
Norway, Oslo
Universitetet I Oslo
Sillman, Sanford
United States, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Zaveri, Rahul A.
United States, Richland
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Steiner, Allison L.
United States, Ann Arbor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Statistics
Citations: 59
Authors: 9
Affiliations: 6
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5194/gmd-5-741-2012
ISSN:
1991959X
e-ISSN:
19919603
Research Areas
Environmental