skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Improving the representation of soluble iron in climate models

Abstract

Funding from this grant supported Rachel Sanza, Yan Zhang and partially Samuel Albani. Substantial progress has been made on inclusion of mineralogy, showing the quality of the simulations, and the impact on radiation in the CAM4 and CAM5 (Scanza et al., 2015). In addition, the elemental distribution has been evaluated (and partially supported by this grant) (Zhang et al., 2015), showing that using spatial distributions of mineralogy, improved resperentation of Fe, Ca and Al are possible, compared to the limited available data. A new intermediate complexity soluble iron scheme was implemented in the Bulk Aerosol Model (BAM), which was completed as part of Rachel Scanza’s PhD thesis. Currently Rachel is writing up at least two first author papers describing the general methods and comparison to observations (Scanza et al., in prep.), as well as papers describing the sensitivity to preindustrial conditions and interannual variability. This work lead to the lead PI being asked to write a commentary in Nature (Mahowald, 2013) and two review papers (Mahowald et al., 2014, Mahowald et al., submitted) and contributed to related papers (Albani et al., 2016, Albani et al., 2014, Albani et al., 2015).

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1333696
Report Number(s):
Final-report
DOE Contract Number:  
SC0006735
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Soluble Iron; Biogeochemistry

Citation Formats

Mahowald, Natalie. Improving the representation of soluble iron in climate models. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.2172/1333696.
Mahowald, Natalie. Improving the representation of soluble iron in climate models. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1333696
Mahowald, Natalie. 2016. "Improving the representation of soluble iron in climate models". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1333696. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1333696.
@article{osti_1333696,
title = {Improving the representation of soluble iron in climate models},
author = {Mahowald, Natalie},
abstractNote = {Funding from this grant supported Rachel Sanza, Yan Zhang and partially Samuel Albani. Substantial progress has been made on inclusion of mineralogy, showing the quality of the simulations, and the impact on radiation in the CAM4 and CAM5 (Scanza et al., 2015). In addition, the elemental distribution has been evaluated (and partially supported by this grant) (Zhang et al., 2015), showing that using spatial distributions of mineralogy, improved resperentation of Fe, Ca and Al are possible, compared to the limited available data. A new intermediate complexity soluble iron scheme was implemented in the Bulk Aerosol Model (BAM), which was completed as part of Rachel Scanza’s PhD thesis. Currently Rachel is writing up at least two first author papers describing the general methods and comparison to observations (Scanza et al., in prep.), as well as papers describing the sensitivity to preindustrial conditions and interannual variability. This work lead to the lead PI being asked to write a commentary in Nature (Mahowald, 2013) and two review papers (Mahowald et al., 2014, Mahowald et al., submitted) and contributed to related papers (Albani et al., 2016, Albani et al., 2014, Albani et al., 2015).},
doi = {10.2172/1333696},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1333696}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Tue Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

Works referenced in this record:

The size distribution of desert dust aerosols and its impact on the Earth system
journal, December 2014