Geoscientific Model Development Discussions www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net 1991-9611 1991-962X 3 3 2010 10.5194/gmdd-3-1359-2010 http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/3/1359/2010/ http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/3/1359/2010/gmdd-3-1359-2010.html http://www.geosci-model-dev-discuss.net/3/1359/2010/gmdd-3-1359-2010.pdf 1359 1421 2010-09-01 The global middle-atmosphere aerosol model MAECHAM5-SAM2: comparison with satellite and in-situ observations R. Hommel rene.hommel@atm.ch.cam.ac.uk C. Timmreck H. F. Graf Max Planck Institute für Meteorologie, Hamburg, Germany Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK now at: Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK In this paper we investigate results from a middle-atmosphere aerosol-climate model which has been developed to study the evolution of stratospheric aerosols. Here we focus on the stratospheric background period and evaluate several key quantities of the global dispersion of stratospheric aerosols and their precursors with observations and other model studies. It is shown that the model fairly well reproduces in situ observations of the aerosol size and number concentrations in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UT/LS). Compared to measurements from the limb-sounding SAGE II satellite instrument, modelled integrated aerosol quantities are more biased the lower the moment of the aerosol population. Both findings are consistent with earlier work analysing the quality of SAGE II retrieved e.g. aerosol surface area densities from the volcanically unperturbed stratosphere (SPARC/ASAP, 2006; Thomason et al., 2008; Wurl et al., 2010). <br><br> The model suggests that new particles are formed over large areas of the LS, albeit nucleation rates in the upper troposphere are at least one order of magnitude larger than those in the stratosphere. Hence, we suggest that both tropospheric sulphate aerosols and particles formed in situ in the LS are maintaining the stability of the stratospheric aerosol layer also in the absence of direct stratospheric emissions from volcanoes. Particle size distributions are clearly bimodal, except in the upper branches of the stratospheric aerosol layer where aerosols evaporate. 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