The EMEP MSC-W chemical transport model – technical description

作者：David Simpson, Anna Benedictow, H. Berge, R. W. Bergstrom, Lisa Emberson, Hilde Fagerli, Christophe Fléchard, Garry Hayman, Michael Gauss, Jan Eiof Jonson, Michael E. Jenkin, Á. Nyíri, Cornelia Richter, V. S. Semeena, Svetlana Tsyro, J.-P. Tuovinen, Álvaro Valdebenito, Peter Wind · 发表于：Atmospheric chemistry and physics · 年份：2012 · DOI：10.5194/acp-12-7825-2012 · 被引用次数：952 · 研究领域：Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols、Air Quality and Health Impacts、Vehicle emissions and performance

Abstract. The Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West (MSC-W) of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP) has been performing model calculations in support of the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) for more than 30 years. The EMEP MSC-W chemical transport model is still one of the key tools within European air pollution policy assessments. Traditionally, the model has covered all of Europe with a resolution of about 50 km × 50 km, and extending vertically from ground level to the tropopause (100 hPa). The model has changed extensively over the last ten years, however, with flexible processing of chemical schemes, meteorological inputs, and with nesting capability: the code is now applied on scales ranging from local (ca. 5 km grid size) to global (with 1 degree resolution). The model is used to simulate photo-oxidants and both inorganic and organic aerosols. In 2008 the EMEP model was released for the first time as public domain code, along with all required input data for model runs for one year. The second release of the EMEP MSC-W model became available in mid 2011, and a new release is targeted for summer 2012. This publication is intended to document this third release of the EMEP MSC-W model. The model formulations are given, along with details of input data-sets which are used, and a brief background on some of the choices made in the formulation is presented. The model code itself is available at www.emep.int, along with the d...