GEOS-Chem AOD (Aerosol Optical Depth) predictions compared with starphotometry and CALIOP estimates during the polar winter
Abstract
We compared AOD (aerosol optical depth) predictions of GEOS-Chem (version 9.01.03) with AOD cloud-screened measurements extracted from starphotometer measurements at Eureka (Nunavut, Canada) and Ny Alesund (Spitsbergen) as well as with the CALIOP AOD product derived for CALIPSO orbit lines within a fixed radius of Eureka and Ny Alesund. The results, supported by Raman lidar measurements at Eureka and Ny Alesund, show degrees of similarity as well as differences that help to understand the quality of cloud-screened, starphotometry optical depths and the AOD / cloud discrimination performance of integrated CALIOP backscatter profiles (in the presence of very challenging statistical sampling constraints) as well as the quality of model predictions in a region and a time period of rare, model evaluation opportunities. The comparisons also help to understand the role of different types of aerosols (predominantly sub-micron) at these high Arctic sites and how one can prepare for the development of long-term, Polar-winter AOD climatologies.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AGUFM.A31D0094H
- Keywords:
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- 0305 Aerosols and particles;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0322 Constituent sources and sinks;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 0345 Pollution: urban and regional;
- ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE;
- 3311 Clouds and aerosols;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES