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GEOS-5 Configuration for ARCTAS

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The Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS will take place during the Spring and Summer of 2008. This is a working document defining the main attributes of the GEOS-5 system that will be deployed in real-time in support of ARCTAS.

The Baseline System

The starting point is the GEOS-5 Atmospheric Data Assimilation System (GEOS-5 ADAS) used for the Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA), consisting of the main subsystems:

  • GEOS-5 Atmospheric Global Climate Model (GEOS-AGCM)
  • The Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) analysis system, jointly developed by NOAA/NCEP and GMAO

This system will be complemented by the GEOS-5 Aerosol/Chemistry (AeroChem) components that were used in support of TC4 (Tropical Composition, Cloud and Climate Coupling) Mission, including

  • Global CO and CO2 tracers
  • GOCART aerosols:
    • Dust: 5 bins
    • Sea-salt: 5 bins
    • Organic carbon: hydrophobic and hydrophilic tracers
    • Black carbon: hydrophobic and hydrophilic tracers
    • Sulfates: SO2, SO4, Dimethylsulphide (DMS) and Methanesulphonic acid (MSA)

Advection, diffusion, and convective transport of the above tracers are performed on-line within the GEOS-5 AGCM.

GEOS-5 Customization for ARCTAS

 

The baseline GEOS-5 system will include the following new features in support of ARCTAS:

  • Additional tracers:
    • 2 Hydrophilic Organic Carbon tag tracers driven by
      • boreal biomass burning
      • non-boreal biomass burning
    • 5 CO tag tracers driven by
      • boreal biomass burning
      • non-boreal biomass burning
      • non-biomass emissions: North America, Europe and Asia
    • 2 CFC F12 tracers tagged according to
      • Tropospheric origin
      • Stratospheric origin
  • The GEOS-5 File Specification Addendum for ARCTAS documents describes the additional data products being generated
  • A real-time data delivery system consisting of
    • OPeNDAP server
    • Anonymous FTP
    • Web Map Server (WMS) with GoogleEarth capabilities (TBD)
  • On-line visualization system tailored for ARCTAS
    • Web-based visualization of Chemical Weather
    • WMS viewer


The bounding boxes for each of the regions above can be found in Table 1.

Table 1. Regions for defining tag tracers
Region Longitude Range Latitude Range Remarks
Western Hemisphere [180W,0] [90S,90N]
Eastern Hemisphere [0,180E] [90S,90N]
Western Boreal [180W,0] [45N,90N]
Eastern Boreal [0,180E] [45N,90N]
Europe TBD TBD
North America TBD TBD
Troposhere [180W,180E) [90S,90N] below GEOS-5 PV-based tropopause
Stratosphere [180W,180E) [90S,90N] above GEOS-5 PV-based tropopause

Chemical Boundary Condition Datasets

Below is a straight copy of the emission datasets as listed in the resource file of each component. This information needs to compiled in tabular form, listing each relevant quantity in these files, with references to the origin of the data.

CO2 Emission Fluxes

CO2 emissions were compiled by Transcom 3 [Gurney et al., 2002]. CO2 fossil fuel is from Andres et al. [1996] and has a global total of 6.17 PgC/yr in 1995. CO2 ecosystem productivity is from a seasonally balanced terrestrial biosphere based on computations of net primary productivity from the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) biogeochemical model [Randerson et al., 1997]. CO2 ocean exchange due to air-sea gas exchange has a magnitude of -2.2 PgC/yr from 1x1 monthly mean CO2 fluxes derived from sea-surface pCO2 measurements [Takahashi et al., 1999].

CO2

CO2_biomass_emission_filename: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/QFED/qfed_rr.emis_co2.sfc.%y4%m2.hdf
CO2_emissions_filename: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/bian.co2.x288_y144_t12.2001.hdf

Black Carbon

bb_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/QFED/qfed_rr.emis_bc.sfc.%y4%m2.hdf
bf_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/harvard_rjpark.bc_biofuel.x360_y181_t12.1971.hdf
ebcant1_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/harvard_rjpark.bc_fossilfuel.x360_y181_t12.1971.hdf

hydrophobic_fraction: 0.8

Organic Carbon

bb_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/QFED/qfed_rr.emis_oc.sfc.%y4%m2.hdf
bf_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/harvard_rjpark.oc_biofuel.x360_y181_t12.1971.hdf
eocant1_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/harvard_rjpark.oc_fossilfuel.x360_y181_t12.1971.hdf
terpene_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/geia.terpene_biogenic.x144_y91_t12.19710115_12z-19711215_12z.hdf

Sulfates

bb_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/QFED/qfed_rr.emis_so2.sfc.%y4%m2.hdf
sanl1_srcfilen:   /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/edgar.sulfur_anthropogenic_lev000m_lev100m.x144_y91.1971.hdf
sanl2_srcfilen:   /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/edgar.sulfur_anthropogenic_lev100m_lev500m.x144_y91.1971.hdf
dmso_concfilen:   /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/kettle_chin.dms_sfcconcentration.x288_y181_t12.1971.hdf
volcnon_srcfilen: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/gocart_tldiehl.so2_continuous_volcanic.x288_y181.2000.hdf
oh_concfilen:     /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/L72/harvard_gmi_merge.oh_conc.x144_y91_z72_t12.2001.hdf
no3_mrfilen:      /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/L72/harvard.no3_mixrat.x144_y91_z72_t12.1971.hdf
h2o2_mrfilen:     /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/L72/harvard.h2o2_mixrat.x144_y91_z72_t12.1971.hdf

Dust

ginoux_dust_source_filename: /share/dasilva/fvInput/g5chem/sfc/gocart_v4a.dust_source.x1080_y721.hdf


CFC F12

Eric: please provide info.

References

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