Global chemistry simulations in the amma multimodel intercomparison project

Jason Edward Williams; Rinus Scheele; Peter Van Velthoven; Idir Bouarar; Kathy Law; Béatrice Josse; Vincent Henri Peuch; Xin Yang; John Pyle; Valérie Thouret; Brice Barret; Cathy Liousse; Frédéric Hourdin; Sophie Szopa; Anne Cozic

doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2818.1

Global chemistry simulations in the amma multimodel intercomparison project

Jason Edward Williams
, Rinus Scheele
, Peter Van Velthoven
, Idir Bouarar
, Kathy Law
, Béatrice Josse
, Vincent Henri Peuch
, Xin Yang
, John Pyle
, Valérie Thouret
, Brice Barret
, Cathy Liousse
, Frédéric Hourdin
, Sophie Szopa
, Anne Cozic

Royal Netherlands Meteorological I.
(CNRS/UVSQ/UPMC)
Météo-France/CNRS
University of Cambridge
Université Paul Sabatier
UVSQ

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Abstract

The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Multimodel Intercomparison Project (AMMA-MIP) performed global chemistry-transport model (CTM) simulations for the West African region in 2006, highlighting the diverse behavior of convective uplift, advective mixing, and the composition of the tropical atmosphere. Four different CTMs were involved in the study and five passive tracers were included for predefined regional domains within the African continent. It was found that models given by the ECMWF meteorological fields show similar tracer distributions for February and August, while the southerly transport is more limited during August in all models. A strong correlation was found with the maximum of the southern African passive tracer in August, indicating that the source of the high concentration originates from this region.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	611-624
Number of pages	14
Journal	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Volume	91
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1175/2009BAMS2818.1
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2010

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Williams, J. E., Scheele, R., Van Velthoven, P., Bouarar, I., Law, K., Josse, B., Peuch, V. H., Yang, X., Pyle, J., Thouret, V., Barret, B., Liousse, C., Hourdin, F., Szopa, S., & Cozic, A. (2010). Global chemistry simulations in the amma multimodel intercomparison project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91(5), 611-624. https://doi.org/10.1175/2009BAMS2818.1

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