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Table 10.2 Global model synopsis

Model GEOS-5 MACC-II MASINGAR MetUM NAAPS NGAC NMMB/BSC-Dust

Institution NASA ECMWF JMA/MRI UK Met Office FNMOC/NRL NCEP BSC-CNS

Meteorological
driver

GEOS-5 IFS MRI/JMA98

AGCM

MetUM NOGAPS NEMS GFS NMMB/NCEP

Source mask Ginoux et al.

( 2001 )

Morcrette et al.
( 2009 )

HWSD, FAO
( 2009 )

USGS,
TOMS-AI,
Walker et al.
( 2009 )

Ginoux et al.
( 2001 )

USGS-FAO with
Ginoux et al. ( 2001 )
and NESDIS
vegetation fraction
climatology (Ignatov
and Gutman 1998 )

Emission
scheme

Based on Ginoux
et al ( 2001 )

Uplifting (Ginoux
et al. 2001 ;
Morcrette et al.
2008 , 2009 )

Uplifting with
threshold wind
velocity

Gillette ( 1978 ),
Marticorena
and
Bergametti
( 1995 ),
Woodward
(2001, 2011)

Westphal et al.
( 1988 )

Dust uplifting
following
Ginoux et al
( 2001 )

Saltation and
sandblasting (White
1979 ; Marticorena
and Bergametti
1995 ; Marticorena
et al. 1997 ; Janjic
1994 ; Nickovic et al.
2001 )

D

6.5 m/s
(Gillette 1978 ;
Tegen and
Fung 1994 )

Deposition
schemes

Colarco et al.
( 2010 )

Wet/dry deposition,
in-cloud and
below-cloud
scavenging
(Morcrette et al.
2009)

Tanaka et al.
( 2003 )

Wet/Dry
deposition
(Woodward
2001 )

Walcek et al.
( 1986 ),
Iversen
( 1989 )

Colarco et al.
( 2010 )

Dry deposition (Zhang
et al. 2001 )andwet
deposition (Ferrier
et al. 2002 ; Betts
1986 ; Janjic, 1994 )

Sedimentation
scheme

Colarco et al.
( 2010 )

Morcrette et al.
( 2009 )

Tanaka et al.
( 2003 )

Woodward
( 2001 )

Hinds ( 1982 ) Colarco et al.

( 2010 )

Zhang et al. ( 2001 )

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