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@ARTICLE{Mann:155386,
author = {Mann, G. W. and Carslaw, K. S. and Reddington, C. L. and
Pringle, K. J. and Schulz, M. and Asmi, A. and Spracklen, D.
V. and Ridley, D. A. and Woodhouse, M. T. and Lee, L. A. and
Zhang, K. and Ghan, S. J. and Easter, R. C. and Liu, X. and
Stier, P. and Lee, Y. H. and Adams, P. J. and Tost, H. and
Lelieveld, J. and Bauer, S. E. and Tsigaridis, K. and van
Noije, T. P. C. and Strunk, A. and Vignati, E. and Bellouin,
N. and Dalvi, M. and Johnson, C. E. and Bergman, T. and
Kokkola, H. and von Salzen, K. and Yu, F. and Luo, G. and
Petzold, A. and Heintzenberg, J. and Clarke, A. and Ogren,
J. A. and Gras, J. and Baltensperger, U. and Kaminski, U.
and Jennings, S. G. and O'Dowd, C. D. and Harrison, R. M.
and Beddows, D. C. S. and Kulmala, M. and Viisanen, Y. and
Ulevicius, V. and Mihalopoulos, N. and Zdimal, V. and
Fiebig, M. and Hansson, H.-C. and Swietlicki, E. and
Henzing, J. S.},
title = {{I}ntercomparison and evaluation of global aerosol
microphysical properties among {A}ero{C}om models of a range
of complexity},
journal = {Atmospheric chemistry and physics},
volume = {14},
number = {9},
issn = {1680-7324},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {EGU},
reportid = {FZJ-2014-04555},
pages = {4679 - 4713},
year = {2014},
abstract = {Many of the next generation of global climate models will
include aerosol schemes which explicitly simulate the
microphysical processes that determine the particle size
distribution. These models enable aerosol optical properties
and cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) concentrations to be
determined by fundamental aerosol processes, which should
lead to a more physically based simulation of aerosol direct
and indirect radiative forcings. This study examines the
global variation in particle size distribution simulated by
12 global aerosol microphysics models to quantify model
diversity and to identify any common biases against
observations. Evaluation against size distribution
measurements from a new European network of aerosol
supersites shows that the mean model agrees quite well with
the observations at many sites on the annual mean, but there
are some seasonal biases common to many sites. In
particular, at many of these European sites, the
accumulation mode number concentration is biased low during
winter and Aitken mode concentrations tend to be
overestimated in winter and underestimated in summer. At
high northern latitudes, the models strongly underpredict
Aitken and accumulation particle concentrations compared to
the measurements, consistent with previous studies that have
highlighted the poor performance of global aerosol models in
the Arctic. In the marine boundary layer, the models capture
the observed meridional variation in the size distribution,
which is dominated by the Aitken mode at high latitudes,
with an increasing concentration of accumulation particles
with decreasing latitude. Considering vertical profiles, the
models reproduce the observed peak in total particle
concentrations in the upper troposphere due to new particle
formation, although modelled peak concentrations tend to be
biased high over Europe. Overall, the multi-model-mean data
set simulates the global variation of the particle size
distribution with a good degree of skill, suggesting that
most of the individual global aerosol microphysics models
are performing well, although the large model diversity
indicates that some models are in poor agreement with the
observations. Further work is required to better constrain
size-resolved primary and secondary particle number sources,
and an improved understanding of nucleation and growth (e.g.
the role of nitrate and secondary organics) will improve the
fidelity of simulated particle size distributions.},
cin = {IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {233 - Trace gas and aerosol processes in the troposphere
(POF2-233)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF2-233},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000336739700020},
doi = {10.5194/acp-14-4679-2014},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/155386},
}