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Quantifying atmospheric transport, chemistry, and mixing using a new trajectory-box model and a global atmospheric-chemistry GCM
Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Air Chemistry Department, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany
Abstract. We present a novel method for the quantification of transport, chemistry, and mixing along atmospheric trajectories based on a consistent model hierarchy. The hierarchy consists of the new atmospheric-chemistry trajectory-box model CAABA/MJT and the three-dimensional (3-D) global ECHAM/MESSy atmospheric-chemistry (EMAC) general circulation model (GCM). CAABA/MJT employs the atmospheric box model CAABA together with the atmospheric-chemistry submodel MECCA (M), the photochemistry submodel JVAL (J), and the new trajectory submodel TRAJECT (T), to simulate atmospheric chemistry along atmospheric trajectories which are provided offline. With the same submodels coupled to the EMAC model, a unique consistency is achieved, which allows to separate contributions of transport, chemistry, and mixing along the trajectory pathways through comparison of results from the two models. Consistency of transport between the trajectory-box model CAABA/MJT and the 3-D EMAC model is achieved via calculation of trajectories based on 3-D wind fields from EMAC. The procedure to obtain the necessary statistical basis for the quantification analysis is described as well as the comprehensive diagnostics with respect to chemistry. The quantification method is applied to 3-D model data as a diagnostic tool with the focus on the transfer of results to observational data.
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Citation: Riede, H., Jöckel, P., and Sander, R.: Quantifying atmospheric transport, chemistry, and mixing using a new trajectory-box model and a global atmospheric-chemistry GCM, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 2, 455-484, 2009. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
