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@ARTICLE{Young:844162,
author = {Young, Paul J. and Naik, Vaishali and Fiore, Arlene M. and
Gaudel, Audrey and Guo, J. and Lin, Meiyun Y. and Neu,
Jessica L. and Parrish, David D. and Rieder, H. E. and
Schnell, J. L. and Tilmes, Simone and Wild, Oliver and
Zhang, L. and Ziemke, Jerry and Brandt, J. and Delcloo, A.
and Doherty, Ruth M. and Geels, C. and Hegglin, Michaela I.
and Hu, L. and Im, Ulas and Kumar, R. and Luhar, A. and
Murray, L. and Plummer, D. and Rodriguez, J. and Saiz-Lopez,
Alfonso and Schultz, Martin and Woodhouse, M. T. and Zeng,
G.},
title = {{T}ropospheric {O}zone {A}ssessment {R}eport: {A}ssessment
of global-scale model performance for global and regional
ozone distributions, variability, and trends},
journal = {Elementa},
volume = {6},
number = {10},
issn = {2325-1026},
address = {Washington, DC},
publisher = {BioOne},
reportid = {FZJ-2018-01627},
pages = {265},
year = {2018},
abstract = {The goal of the Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR)
is to provide the research community with an up-to-date
scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, from the
surface to the tropopause. While a suite of observations
provides significant information on the spatial and temporal
distribution of tropospheric ozone, observational gaps make
it necessary to use global atmospheric chemistry models to
synthesize our understanding of the processes and variables
that control tropospheric ozone abundance and its
variability. Models facilitate the interpretation of the
observations and allow us to make projections of future
tropospheric ozone and trace gas distributions for different
anthropogenic or natural perturbations. This paper assesses
the skill of current-generation global atmospheric chemistry
models in simulating the observed present-day tropospheric
ozone distribution, variability, and trends. Drawing upon
the results of recent international multi-model
intercomparisons and using a range of model evaluation
techniques, we demonstrate that global chemistry models are
broadly skillful in capturing the spatio-temporal variations
of tropospheric ozone over the seasonal cycle, for extreme
pollution episodes, and changes over interannual to decadal
periods. However, models are consistently biased high in the
northern hemisphere and biased low in the southern
hemisphere, throughout the depth of the troposphere, and are
unable to replicate particular metrics that define the
longer term trends in tropospheric ozone as derived from
some background sites. When the models compare unfavorably
against observations, we discuss the potential causes of
model biases and propose directions for future developments,
including improved evaluations that may be able to better
diagnose the root cause of the model-observation disparity.
Overall, model results should be approached critically,
including determining whether the model performance is
acceptable for the problem being addressed, whether biases
can be tolerated or corrected, whether the model is
appropriately constituted, and whether there is a way to
satisfactorily quantify the uncertainty.},
cin = {JSC / IEK-8},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)JSC-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IEK-8-20101013},
pnm = {512 - Data-Intensive Science and Federated Computing
(POF3-512) / Earth System Data Exploration (ESDE)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-512 / G:(DE-Juel-1)ESDE},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000423829500001},
doi = {10.1525/elementa.265},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/844162},
}