Atmospheric chemistry and climate predictability: Towards an advanced climate model

Conference · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:7249442

Wuebbles, D J; Penner, J E; Rotman, D A

The goal of this project is to emphasize the role of atmospheric chemistry and tracer transport in determining the predictability of climate change and to develop the chemical-transport modeling capability needed for advanced climate modeling through accurate and efficient calculations of global climate phenomena affected by atmospheric chemistry, radiation, and transport processes. The interactions between these processes are of major importance to the large questions of global climate change, and in general, to global climates. This study has four main objectives: (1) to show and investigate the strong interaction between chemistry and global climate and global climate change, with the purpose of determining how these interactions affect climate predictability and the accuracy with which climate projections can be made; (2) to study and develop new model physics and numerical algorithms for atmospheric chemical, radiative, microphysical and transport processes which are needed for a more accurate prediction of global climate and climate change; (3) to develop a next generation three dimensional chemistry-transport model that can fully interface (or be run stand alone when appropriate) with a GCM within the advanced climate modeling framework to accurately calculate these interactions on a regional to global scale; and, (4) to design and implement this new chemistry-transport model on a massively parallel machine for high resolution large-scale application to global change questions.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 7249442
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-110812; CONF-9203118--2; ON: DE92017437
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION
CHEMISTRY
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
FORECASTING
GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATIONS
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GREENHOUSE GASES
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
VARIATIONS