[RegCNET] RegCM-Aerosol

Sat Nov 17 09:34:41 CET 2007

Dear Ashraf

Concerning your questions my PhD thesis (Bern Univ.,Switzerland, 1999)  
was on fundamental tropospheric chmemistry of ozone in the free  
troposphere involving both measurements of radicals and other species  
and chemical box modeling. In our group now in Greece we use CAMx for  
regional air-quality modelling. We partcipate in CECILIA EU project  
(ICTP also participates) where we look on climate change impacts on  
air pollution. In this aspect we use RegCM3 to get the meteorological  
boundary conditions to force off-line CAMx for present and future  
simulations. I am aware of similar work that has been already  
published in 2007 (Atmos. Environ.) by Meleux, Solmon and Giorgi using  
CHIMERE.
However, since our CAMx calculations are offline and cannot have  
feedback of air quality on climate, I am also very interested for a  
RegCM3/chem model to see the feedback of  tropospheric ozone on  
regional climate scale. In which stage is you project on this issue?
As far as it concerns the project "Use of a Regional climate model
coupled with aerosols to study the climate feedback of aerosols on
Eastern Mediterranean Climate" is in the stage of submission for  
funding. I have done already yearly calcualtions looking the feedback  
of anthropogenic aerosols getting support by Fabien. I will let you  
when I have some interesting conclusions from the analysis.

With kind regards
Prodromos

?????? ?????? ??? Ashraf Zakey <azakey at ictp.it>:

>
> Dear Prodromos ,
>
>      Thanks for your reply.  Did you mean you have some work with
> modeling of tropospheric ozone?  As matter of fact, we are working to
> include complex gas-phase chemistry  in RegCM.  We are interested to
> see the impact of  tropospheric ozone on regional climate scale . Me
> and Dr.  Steiner from University of Michigan and others working in this
> research line and we applied to get some fund for this purpose.  If any
> one from the group has any other idea, we will welcome his
> contribution.  Aslo, Dr. Fabien Solmon  , me and others working to
> improve the chemistry model in RegCM.
>
>    Did you started your project on "Use of a Regional climate model
> coupled with aerosols to study the climate feedback of aerosols on
> Eastern Mediterranean Climate " ? If you started to have some results
> and validation we can think together with the aerosol group to arrange
> for one special issue for aerosol publication.  What do you think?
>
>
> Best wishes
> Ashraf
>
> Prodromos Zanis wrote:
>> Dear Ashraf
>>
>> Please disregard the previous email you received as it is   
>> incomplete. See below my complete reply.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your effort to organise the RegCM3-aerosol group and
>> promote the interactions within it.
>> Please find below the information related to your questions.
>>
>> 1-  Your research area ( Chemistry - aerosol or both)
>> Air-pollution and meteorology
>> The last 10-years I have worked mostly on reserch regarding tropospheric and
>> stratospheric ozone.
>> The last 4-years I started working on regional climate with RegCM3 and  I am
>> very much interested on chemistry-climate interactions in regional scale.
>>
>> 2-  The title of your proposal and small summary
>> Use of a Regional climate model coupled with aerosols to study the climate
>> feedback of aerosols on Eastern Mediterranean Climate
>> Within the framework of this project the following aspects will be
>> investigated:
>> i)    Sensitivity study of RegCM3 climate feedback with respect to the
>> different aerosols (anthropogenic, biomass and dust aerosols).
>> ii)  Validation of RegCM3/aerosol with observations. For this purpose AOD
>> (aerosol optical depth) measurements and lidar profile measurements may be
>> used from Greece.
>> ii) Investigation of how the aerosol feedback affects the regional   
>> meterorological parameters like surface temparture and precipitation.
>> iii) Investigation of the long-term effects of aerosol feedback on   
>> regional climate.
>>
>> 3-  The project coordinators of your work
>> Myself
>>
>> 4- Is your research funded by specific project? which one?
>> This project has not funded yet.
>>
>> 5- The requested aerosol/chemistry data for your simulation
>> I am not sure what do you mean.
>>
>> 6- Did you have reasonable data to validate your simulation?
>> We have lidar data from Earlinet around Europe and especially for   
>> Greece at Athens and Thessaloniki.
>> Also AOD from AERONET.
>>
>> 7- How do you expects the help from ICTP?
>> Interaction concerning the technical aspects of the model as well   
>> as the development of the model.
>>
>> 8- How do you expects ICTP-Join research work with your team?
>> Collaboration for advancing our common work.
>>
>>
>> With kind regards
>> Prodromos Zanis
>>
>> ********************************************************************
>> Prodromos Zanis, Assistant Prof.
>> Department of Meteorology and Climatology
>> Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
>> University Campus, Thessaloniki, 54124
>> Greece
>> Tel: +302310998240
>> Fax:+302310995392
>> email: zanis at auth.gr
>> web: http://users.auth.gr/~zanis/
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>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashraf Zakey" <azakey at ictp.it>
>> To: "regcnet" <regcnet at lists.ictp.it>; <azakey at ictp.it>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 2:34 PM
>> Subject: [RegCNET] RegCM-Aerosol
>>
>>
>>> Dear RegCM-aerosols/Chemistry users,
>>>    In order to provide much better help for all of you, would you
>>> please provide me the following information about your projects?
>>>
>>> 1-  Your research area ( Chemistry - aerosol or both)
>>> 2-  The title of your proposal and small summery
>>> 3-  The project coordinators of your work
>>> 4- Is your research funded by specific project? which one?
>>> 5- The requested aerosol/chemistry data for your simulation
>>> 6- Did you have reasonable data to validate your simulation?
>>> 6- How do you expects the help from ICTP?
>>> 7- How do you expects ICTP-Join research work with your team?
>>>
>>> I'm interested to have interaction framework between all the
>>> RegCM-aerosols/Chemistry users. Please try to provide the above
>>> information.
>>>
>>>
>>> best wishes
>>> Ashraf Zakey
>>>
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