Operational Dust Prediction - Mineral Dust: A Key Player in the Earth System - page 231

Table 10.3 Regional models synopsis

DREAM8-
NMME-
MACC

BSC-
DREAM8b

NMMB/
BSC-Dust Model CHIMERE CMAQ-KOSA COAMPS CUACE/Dust TAQM-KOSA

Institution BSC-CNS LMD NTU/TEPA FNMOC/NRL CMA/CAMS SEEVCCC BSC-CNS NTU/TEPA

Meteorological
driver

Eta/NCEP WRF MM5/WRF COAMPS MM5 and

GRAPES

NMME/NCEP NMMB/NCEP MM5/WRF

Meteorological
initial fields

NCEP/GFS NCEP/GFS NCEP/GFS COAMPS ECMWF NCEP/GFS NCEP/GFS

Source mask USGS-FAO

with Ginoux
et al. ( 2001 )

Wang et al.
( 2000 ) C
MODIS
land type

Walker et al.
( 2009 )

Gong et al.
( 2003a , b ),
Zhang et al.
( 2003 )

USGS-FAO
with Ginoux
et al. ( 2001 )

USGS-FAO
with Ginoux
et al. ( 2001 )
and NESDIS

Wang et al.
( 2000 )

Emission
scheme

Uplifting (Shao
et al. 1993 ;
Janjic 1994 ;
Nickovic
et al. 2001 )

Saltation and
sandblasting
(Marticorena
and Bergametti
1995 ;Alfaro
and Gomes
2001 ; Menut
et al. 2005 )

Uplifting
(Wang et al.
2000 )

Lifting (Liu
and
Westphal
2001 )

Marticorena
and
Bergametti
( 1995 ),
Alfaro et al.
( 1997 ),
Alfaro and
Gomes
( 2001 )

Uplifting (Shao
et al. 1993 ;
Janjic 1994 ;
Nickovic
et al. 2001 )

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

Uplifting
(Wang et al.
2000 )

Deposition
schemes

Dry deposition
(Zhang et al.
2001 )and
below-cloud
scavenging
(Nickovic
et al. 2001 )

Dry deposition
(Venkatram
and Pleim,
1999 )andwet
deposition

Dry deposition
and
below-cloud
scavenging
(CMAQ;
Byun and
Schere
2006 )

Dry and wet
deposition
and below-
cloud
scavenging
(Liu et al.
2001 )

Dry deposition
(Zhang et al.
2001 )and
below-cloud
scavenging
(Nickovic
et al. 2001 ).

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

Dry deposition
and
below-cloud
scavenging
(RADM2;
Stockwell
et al. 1990 )