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Research
Chemistry and Climate
Chemistry-climate interactions
Research in this area focuses on the following questions:
The main tool for this work is the climate model EC-Earth.
The Chemistry and Climate division has recently included the global chemistry transport model
TM5 as a module within EC-Earth,
using the OASIS3 coupling interface.
The current system is based on the tropospheric chemistry version of TM5
in which sulphate, black carbon, organic carbon, sea salt and mineral dust aerosols are described by the
M7
aerosol microphysics model,
while the semi-volatile nitrate and ammonium aerosol components are calculated from the equilibrium simplified aerosol model
(EQSAM).
Persons involved:
For more information, please contact
Twan van Noije
Annual mean surface ozone concentration change (ppbv) due to 0.6 °C global warming between 2005 and 2030, as obtained from decadal simulations with EC-Earth. The stippled areas in the map indicate regions where the differences between the future and present-day simulations are insignificant compared to the interannual variability. The response of biogenic emissions to the changing climatic conditions is not included in the ozone changes shown in this figure.
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Nitrogen oxide distribution simulated with the TM model
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