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Title: Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model

Abstract

Atmospheric carbonaceous aerosols play an important role in the climate system by influencing the Earth's radiation budgets and modifying the cloud properties. Despite the importance, their representations in large-scale atmospheric models are still crude, which can influence model simulated burden, lifetime, physical, chemical and optical properties, and the climate forcing of carbonaceous aerosols. In this study, we improve the current three-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM3) in the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5) by introducing an additional primary carbon mode to explicitly account for the microphysical ageing of primary carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere. Compared to MAM3, the four-mode version of MAM (MAM4) significantly increases the column burdens of primary particulate organic matter (POM) and black carbon (BC) by up to 40 % in many remote regions, where in-cloud scavenging plays an important role in determining the aerosol concentrations. Differences in the column burdens for other types of aerosol (e.g., sulfate, secondary organic aerosols, mineral dust, sea salt) are less than 1 %. Evaluating the MAM4 simulation against in situ surface and aircraft observations, we find that MAM4 significantly improves the simulation of seasonal variation of near-surface BC concentrations in the polar regions, by increasing the BCmore » concentrations in all seasons and particularly in cold seasons. However, it exacerbates the overestimation of modeled BC concentrations in the upper troposphere in the Pacific regions. As a result, the comparisons suggest that, to address the remaining model POM and BC biases, future improvements are required related to (1) in-cloud scavenging and vertical transport in convective clouds and (2) emissions of anthropogenic and biomass burning aerosols.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [2]
  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1243191
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-110649
Journal ID: ISSN 1991-9603; KP1703020
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Geoscientific Model Development (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Geoscientific Model Development (Online); Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1991-9603
Publisher:
European Geosciences Union
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Liu, X., Ma, P. -L., Wang, H., Tilmes, S., Singh, B., Easter, R. C., Ghan, S. J., and Rasch, P. J. Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.5194/gmd-9-505-2016.
Liu, X., Ma, P. -L., Wang, H., Tilmes, S., Singh, B., Easter, R. C., Ghan, S. J., & Rasch, P. J. Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-505-2016
Liu, X., Ma, P. -L., Wang, H., Tilmes, S., Singh, B., Easter, R. C., Ghan, S. J., and Rasch, P. J. Mon . "Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-505-2016. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1243191.
@article{osti_1243191,
title = {Description and evaluation of a new four-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM4) within version 5.3 of the Community Atmosphere Model},
author = {Liu, X. and Ma, P. -L. and Wang, H. and Tilmes, S. and Singh, B. and Easter, R. C. and Ghan, S. J. and Rasch, P. J.},
abstractNote = {Atmospheric carbonaceous aerosols play an important role in the climate system by influencing the Earth's radiation budgets and modifying the cloud properties. Despite the importance, their representations in large-scale atmospheric models are still crude, which can influence model simulated burden, lifetime, physical, chemical and optical properties, and the climate forcing of carbonaceous aerosols. In this study, we improve the current three-mode version of the Modal Aerosol Module (MAM3) in the Community Atmosphere Model version 5 (CAM5) by introducing an additional primary carbon mode to explicitly account for the microphysical ageing of primary carbonaceous aerosols in the atmosphere. Compared to MAM3, the four-mode version of MAM (MAM4) significantly increases the column burdens of primary particulate organic matter (POM) and black carbon (BC) by up to 40 % in many remote regions, where in-cloud scavenging plays an important role in determining the aerosol concentrations. Differences in the column burdens for other types of aerosol (e.g., sulfate, secondary organic aerosols, mineral dust, sea salt) are less than 1 %. Evaluating the MAM4 simulation against in situ surface and aircraft observations, we find that MAM4 significantly improves the simulation of seasonal variation of near-surface BC concentrations in the polar regions, by increasing the BC concentrations in all seasons and particularly in cold seasons. However, it exacerbates the overestimation of modeled BC concentrations in the upper troposphere in the Pacific regions. As a result, the comparisons suggest that, to address the remaining model POM and BC biases, future improvements are required related to (1) in-cloud scavenging and vertical transport in convective clouds and (2) emissions of anthropogenic and biomass burning aerosols.},
doi = {10.5194/gmd-9-505-2016},
journal = {Geoscientific Model Development (Online)},
number = 2,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Mon Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-19-14517-2019

The path to CAM6: coupled simulations with CAM5.4 and CAM5.5
journal, January 2018

  • Bogenschutz, Peter A.; Gettelman, Andrew; Hannay, Cecile
  • Geoscientific Model Development, Vol. 11, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-235-2018

A simple model for the time evolution of the condensation sink in the atmosphere for intermediate Knudsen numbers
posted_content, November 2017

  • Ezhova, Ekaterina; Matti-Kerminen, Veli; Lehtinen, Kari E. J.
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-2017-986

Aerosols at the Poles: An AeroCom Phase II multi-model evaluation
posted_content, February 2017

  • Sand, Maria; Samset, Bjørn H.; Balkanski, Yves
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
  • DOI: 10.5194/acp-2016-1120

Effective radiative forcing in the aerosol-climate model CAM5.3-MARC-ARG
text, January 2018


Constraining Aging Processes of Black Carbon in the Community Atmosphere Model Using Environmental Chamber Measurements
journal, October 2018

  • Wang, Yuan; Ma, Po‐Lun; Peng, Jianfei
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol. 10, Issue 10
  • DOI: 10.1029/2018ms001387

Black carbon radiative effects highly sensitive to emitted particle size when resolving mixing-state diversity
journal, August 2018

  • Matsui, Hitoshi; Hamilton, Douglas S.; Mahowald, Natalie M.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05635-1

Impacts of wildfire aerosols on global energy budget and climate: The role of climate feedbacks
conference, May 2020