Meteorological Influences on Anthropogenic PM 2.5 in Future Climates: Species Level Analysis in the Community Earth System Model v2

Abstract. While state-of-the-art complex chemical mechanisms expand our understanding of atmospheric chemistry, their sheer size and computational requirements often limit simulations to short lengths or ensembles to only a few members. Here we present and compare three 25-year present-day offline simulations with chemical mechanisms of different levels of complexity using the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Version 1.2 CAM-chem (CAM4): the Model for Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers, version 4 (MOZART-4) mechanism, the Reduced Hydrocarbon mechanism, and the Super-Fast mechanism. We show that, for most regions and time periods, differences in simulated ozone chemistry between these three mechanisms are smaller than the model–observation differences themselves. The MOZART-4 mechanism and the Reduced Hydrocarbon are in close agreement in their representation of ozone throughout the troposphere during all time periods (annual, seasonal, and diurnal). While the Super-Fast mechanism tends to have higher simulated ozone variability and differs from the MOZART-4 mechanism over regions of high biogenic emissions, it is surprisingly capable of simulating ozone adequately given its simplicity. We explore the trade-offs between chemical mechanism complexity and computational cost by identifying regions where the simpler mechanisms are comparable to the MOZART-4 mechanism and regions where they are not. The Super-Fast mechanism is 3 times as fast as the MOZART-4 mechanism, which allows for longer simulations or ensembles with more members that may not be feasible with the MOZART-4 mechanism given limited computational resources.

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Development of hybrid 3-D hydrological modeling for the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM)

10.2172/1227980 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Xubin Zeng ◽

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Peter Troch ◽

Jon Pelletier ◽

Guo-Yue Niu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Hydrological Modeling ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Community Earth System Model

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Review of of "Multi-Scale Sea Ice Kinematics Modeling with a Grid Hierarchy in Community Earth System Model (version 1.2.1)"

10.5194/gmd-2020-160-rc2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Frederic Dupont

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Multi Scale ◽

Model Version ◽

Kinematics Modeling ◽

Community Earth System Model

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Review of “Multi-Scale Sea Ice Kinematics Modeling with a Grid Hierarchy in Community Earth System Model (version 1.2.1)” by Xu et al. (2020)

10.5194/gmd-2020-160-rc1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Nils Hutter

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Multi Scale ◽

Model Version ◽

Kinematics Modeling ◽

Community Earth System Model

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Quantifying the role of fire in the Earth system – Part 1: Improved global fire modeling in the Community Earth System Model (CESM1)

Biogeosciences Discussions ◽

10.5194/bgd-9-16753-2012 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 16753-16814 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

F. Li ◽

S. Levis ◽

D. S. Ward

Keyword(s):

Carbon Emissions ◽

Anthropogenic Impacts ◽

Earth System Model ◽

System Model ◽

Burned Area ◽

Earth System ◽

Alternative Scheme ◽

System Perspective ◽

Community Earth System Model ◽

Peat Fires

Abstract. Modeling fire as an integral part of an Earth system model (ESM) is vital for quantifying and understanding fire-climate-vegetation interactions on a global scale and from an Earth system perspective. In this study, we introduce to the Community Earth System Model (CESM) the new global fire parameterization proposed by Li et al. (2012), now with a more realistic representation of the anthropogenic impacts on fires, with a parameterization of peat fires, and with other minor modifications. The improved representation of the anthropogenic dimension includes the first attempt to parameterize agricultural fires, the economic influence on fire occurrence, and the socioeconomic influence on fire spread in a global fire model; also an alternative scheme for deforestation fires. The global fire parameterization has been tested in CESM1's land component model CLM4 in a 1850–2004 transient simulation, and evaluated against the satellite-based Global Fire Emission Database version 3 (GFED3) for 1997–2004. The simulated 1997–2004 average global totals for the burned area and fire carbon emissions in the new fire scheme are 338 Mha yr−1 and 2.1 Pg C yr−1. Its simulations on multi-year average burned area, fire seasonality, fire interannual variability, and fire carbon emissions are reasonable, and show better agreement with GFED3 than the current fire scheme in CESM1 and modified CTEM-FIRE. Moreover, the new fire scheme also estimates the contributions of global fire carbon emissions from different sources. During 1997–2004, the contributions are 8% from agricultural biomass burning, 27% from tropical deforestation and degradation fires, 5% from global peat fires (3.7% from tropical peat fires), and 60% from other fires, which are close to previous assessments based on satellite data, government statistics, or other information sources. In addition, we investigate the importance of direct anthropogenic influence (anthropogenic ignitions and fire suppression) on global fire regimes during 1850–2004, using CESM1 with the new fire scheme. Results show that the direct anthropogenic impact is the main factor driving the trends of global burned area in the whole period and fire carbon emissions only before ~ 1870.

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Tropical climate variability in the Community Earth System Model: Data Assimilation Research Testbed

Climate Dynamics ◽

10.1007/s00382-019-05030-6 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 54 (1-2) ◽

pp. 793-806 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jonathan Eliashiv ◽

Aneesh C. Subramanian ◽

Arthur J. Miller

Keyword(s):

Data Assimilation ◽

Climate Variability ◽

Tropical Climate ◽

Earth System Model ◽

The Other ◽

System Model ◽

Earth System ◽

Ocean Atmosphere ◽

Community Earth System Model ◽

Free Running

AbstractA new prototype coupled ocean–atmosphere Ensemble Kalman Filter reanalysis product, the Community Earth System Model using the Data Assimilation Research Testbed (CESM-DART), is studied by comparing its tropical climate variability to other reanalysis products, available observations, and a free-running version of the model. The results reveal that CESM-DART produces fields that are comparable in overall performance with those of four other uncoupled and coupled reanalyses. The clearest signature of differences in CESM-DART is in the analysis of the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) and other tropical atmospheric waves. MJO energy is enhanced over the free-running CESM as well as compared to the other products, suggesting the importance of the surface flux coupling at the ocean–atmosphere interface in organizing convective activity. In addition, high-frequency Kelvin waves in CESM-DART are reduced in amplitude compared to the free-running CESM run and the other products, again supportive of the oceanic coupling playing a role in this difference. CESM-DART also exhibits a relatively low bias in the mean tropical precipitation field and mean sensible heat flux field. Conclusive evidence of the importance of coupling on data assimilation performance will require additional detailed direct comparisons with identically formulated, uncoupled data assimilation runs.

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