CMAQv5.0.2 Wind blown dust updates

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Brief Description

  • Correction to diagnostic file units description
  • Snow cover adjustment - previously, there was no accounting for the effect of snow covering land where dust might be produced
  • Correction to soil moisture factor (fmoit)
  • Correction to use gravimetric water content instead of volumetric soil moisture
  • Use land/water mask (lwmask) > 0 rather than soil type (sltyp) > 0 (0 non-existent) for over water test

Significance and Impact

Testing is underway

Affected files

emis/emis/DUST_EMIS.F

References

  • Zender, C.S., H. Bian, D. Newman, Mineral Dust Entrainment and Deposition (DEAD) model: Description and 1990s dust climatology,J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4416, doi:10.1029/2002JD002775. 2003
  • Feacutecan, F., Marticorena, B., and Bergametti, G.: Parametrization of the increase of the aeolian erosion threshold wind friction velocity due to soil moisture for arid and semi-arid areas, Ann. Geophys., 17, 149–157, doi:10.1007/s00585-999-0149-7, 1999.

Contact

Jeff Young, Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, U.S. EPA

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