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Improving the inter-hemispheric gradient of total column atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ in simulations with the ECMWF semi-Lagrangian atmospheric global model

Agusti-Panareda, Anna; Diamantakis, Michail; Bayona, Victor; Klappenbach, Friedrich 1; Butz, Andre 1
1 Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Spurenstoffe und Fernerkundung (IMK-ASF), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Abstract:

It is a widely established fact that standard semi-Lagrangian advection schemes are highly efficient numerical techniques for simulating the transport of atmospheric tracers. However, as they are not formally mass conserving, it is essential to use some method for restoring mass conservation in long time range forecasts. A common approach is to use global mass fixers. This is the case of the semi-Lagrangian advection scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) model used by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
Mass fixers are algorithms with substantial differences in complexity and sophistication but in general of low computational cost. This paper shows the positive impact mass fixers have on the inter-hemispheric gradient of total atmospheric column-averaged CO₂ and CH₄, a crucial feature of their spatial distribution. Two algorithms are compared: the simple "proportional" and the more complex Bermejo-Conde schemes. The former is widely used by several Earth system climate models as well the CAMS global forecasts and analysis of atmospheric composition, while the latter has been recently implemented in IFS. ... mehr


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000066816
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DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-1-2017
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung – Atmosphärische Spurenstoffe und Fernerkundung (IMK-ASF)
KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (ZKU)
Publikationstyp Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Publikationsjahr 2017
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISSN: 1991-9603, 1991-959X
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-668164
KITopen-ID: 1000066816
HGF-Programm 12.03.01 (POF III, LK 01) Long term observations of tropospheric
Erschienen in Geoscientific model development
Verlag Copernicus Publications
Band 10
Heft 1
Seiten 1-18
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