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| Titel |
Use and validation of the GEMS chemical forecasts during POLARCAT 2008 campaigns |
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M. F. Khokhar, C. Granier, K. S. Law, L. Jones, J. Flemming, O. Stein, M. Schultz, NASA ARCTAS Data Team, DLR-GRACE data team, POLARCAT-France Data Team |
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EGU General Assembly 2009
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 11 (2009) |
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250030150
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| Zusammenfassung |
| High latitude (polar) regions have profound significance for the Earth's climate and are highly sensitive to climate change. It raises concern for the future of polar ecosystems and consequently to global climate change. As a part of international polar year (IPY), major POLARCAT measurement campaigns were performed. For example, POLARCAT-France aircraft campaigns were conducted in Kiruna, Sweden during spring and Kangerlussuaq, Greenland during summer 2008.
The main objective of these campaigns was to study Arctic Haze, inter-continental transport of Siberian forest fire plumes, European agricultural fire plumes, North American and European pollution, their chemical composition and to validate satellite observations over the Arctic region.
The campaign involved forecasts from different chemistry transport models (CTMs) within framework of GEMS project. These forecasts were used for flight planning during the POLARCAT 2008 campaigns to predict anthropogenic pollution outflows, European agricultural and Siberian forest fire plumes. A snapshot analysis of predicted trace gases, obtained from GEMS CTMs forecasts and other chemical forecast models (e.g. GEOS-Chem, FLEXPART etc) during POLARCAT 2008 campaigns will be presented. Post campaign validation of the analysis fields has been carried out using trace gas data collected by various aircrafts (e.g. POLARCAT-France, DLR-GRACE, NASA-ARCTAS) during POLARCAT 2008. |
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