A new WRF-Chem treatment for studying regional-scale impacts of cloud processes on aerosol and trace gases in parameterized cumuli

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作者：
Berg, L. K. [1 ]
Shrivastava, M. [1 ]
Easter, R. C. [1 ]
Fast, J. D. [1 ]
Chapman, E. G. [1 ]
Liu, Y. [1 ]
Ferrare, R. A. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Pacific NW Natl Lab, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[2] NASA, Langley Res Ctr, Hampton, VA 23665 USA
来源：
GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT | 2015年 / 8卷 / 02期
关键词：
MODELING ORGANIC AEROSOLS; RADIATIVE IMPACT; NUMERICAL-MODEL; PRECIPITATION; MICROPHYSICS; RESOLUTION; CHEMISTRY; EMISSIONS; SULFUR; IMPLEMENTATION;
D O I：
10.5194/gmd-8-409-2015
中图分类号：
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号：
07 ;
摘要：
A new treatment of cloud effects on aerosol and trace gases within parameterized shallow and deep convection, and aerosol effects on cloud droplet number, has been implemented in the Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem) version 3.2.1 that can be used to better understand the aerosol life cycle over regional to synoptic scales. The modifications to the model include treatment of the cloud droplet number mixing ratio; key cloud microphysical and macrophysical parameters (including the updraft fractional area, updraft and downdraft mass fluxes, and entrainment) averaged over the population of shallow clouds, or a single deep convective cloud; and vertical transport, activation/resuspension, aqueous chemistry, and wet removal of aerosol and trace gases in warm clouds. These changes have been implemented in both the WRF-Chem chemistry packages as well as the Kain Fritsch (KF) cumulus parameterization that has been modified to better represent shallow convective clouds. Testing of the modified WRF-Chem has been completed using observations from the Cumulus Humilis Aerosol Processing Study (CHAPS). The simulation results are used to investigate the impact of cloud aerosol interactions on regional-scale transport of black carbon (BC), organic aerosol (OA), and sulfate aerosol. Based on the simulations presented here, changes in the columnintegrated BC can be as large as 50% when cloud aerosol interactions are considered (due largely to wet removal), or as large as +40 % for sulfate under non-precipitating conditions due to sulfate production in the parameterized clouds. The modifications to WRF-Chem are found to account for changes in the cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) and changes in the chemical composition of cloud droplet residuals in a way that is consistent with observations collected during CHAPS. Efforts are currently underway to port the changes described here to the latest version of WRFChem, and it is anticipated that they will be included in a future public release of WRF-Chem.
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页数：21
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