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Improving BC Mixing State and CCN Activity Representation With Machine Learning in the Community Atmosphere Model Version 6 (CAM6)

Journal Article · · Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS003889· OSTI ID:2282676
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  1. School of Atmospheric Sciences Nanjing University Nanjing China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences and Institute for Climate and Global Change Research Nanjing University Nanjing China
  2. Department of Atmospheric Sciences University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign Urbana IL USA
  3. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences The University of Manchester Manchester UK
  4. School of Atmospheric Sciences Nanjing University Nanjing China, Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences and Institute for Climate and Global Change Research Nanjing University Nanjing China, Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling Nanjing University Nanjing China
Abstract

Representing mixing state of black carbon (BC) is challenging for global climate models (GCMs). The Community Atmosphere Model version 6 (CAM6) with the four‐mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) represents aerosols as fully internal mixtures with uniform composition within each aerosol mode, resulting in high degree of internal mixing of BC with non‐BC species and large mass ratio of coating to BC ( R BC , the mass ratio of non‐BC species to BC in BC‐containing particles). To improve BC mixing state representation, we coupled a machine learning (ML) model of BC mixing state index trained on particle‐resolved simulations to the CAM6 with MAM4 (MAM4‐ML). In MAM4‐ML, we use R BC to partition accumulation mode particles into two new modes, BC‐free particles and BC‐containing particles. We adjust R BC to make the modeled BC mixing state index ( χ mode ) match the one predicted by the ML model ( χ ML ). On a global average, the mass fraction of BC‐containing particles in accumulation mode decreases from 100% (MAM4‐default) to 48% (MAM4‐ML). The globally averaged χ mode decreases from 78% (MAM4‐default) to 63% (MAM4‐ML, 19% reduction) and agrees well with χ ML (66%). The R BC decreases by 52% for accumulation mode and better agrees with observations. The hygroscopicity drops by 9% for BC‐containing particles in accumulation mode, leading to a 20% reduction in the BC activation fraction. The surface BC concentration increases most (6.9%) in the Arctic, and the BC burden increases by 4%, globally. Our study highlights the application of the ML model for improving key aerosol processes in GCMs.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0022130
OSTI ID:
2282676
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 2311025
OSTI ID: 2577981
Journal Information:
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 16; ISSN 1942-2466
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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