Large-scale tropospheric transport in the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) simulations

Published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2018

Recommended citation: Orbe, C., Yang, H., Waugh, D. W., Zeng, G., Morgenstern , O., Kinnison, D. E., Lamarque, J.-F., Tilmes, S., Plummer, D. A., Scinocca, J. F., Josse, B., Marecal, V., Jockel, P., Oman, L. D., Strahan, S. E., Deushi, M., Tanaka, T. Y., Yoshida, K., Akiyoshi, H., Yamashita, Y., Stenke, A., Revell, L., Sukhodolov, T., Rozanov, E., Pitari, G., Visioni, D., Stone, K. A., Schofield, R., and Banerjee, A.: "Large-scale tropospheric transport in the Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) simulations", Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 7217-7235, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-7217-2018, 2018. https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/18/7217/2018/

How do CCMI models fare in terms of tropospheric large-scale transport? Not very good, mostly due to coarse horizontal resolution.

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