UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorial 11
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What you will learn in this Tutorial
In this tutorial you will learn about the Aerosol Optical Depth and how aerosol optical properties are diagnosed by RADAER GLOMAP-mode aerosol module and how it tracks different aerosol types within several size classes.
Task 10.1: Understand how the RADAER module diagoses aerosol optical properties from GLOMAP and provide direct radiative effects to the atmosphere model
Read section 13.2 (pages 41-44) of the UKCA UMDP.
Task 10.2: Derive Aerosol Optical Depth diagnostics from your UKCA model runs
The dimensions for each of these STASH items is 2D global in longitude and latitude but there is also a third dimension containing 6 pseudo levels for the 6 monochromatic AODs stored by the model.
The standard settings for these are to store AOD at 0.38, 0.44, 0.55, 0.67, 0.87, 1.02 micron wavelengths although any wavelength can be set by modifying the values set in the RADAER fortran code.
Written by Graham Mann 2014
