Hi Dilip,

I'll send to you later today the AEROSOL.dat AEROSOL.ctl obtained after the changes and we will see.

Best regards,

Konare

Dilip Ganguly <dganguly@prl.res.in> wrote:

Hi,
Thanks Konare for your reply. But, I do not have any directory like
RegCM/PreProc/DATA/AERGLOB/orig
and hence I am not able to find the routines conv_bin.f and conv_bin.x

When I run the datalinker.x, RegCM/PreProc/DATA/AERGLOB/ directory is
created which contains link to the files AEROSOL.dat and AEROSOL.ctl.

So, I do not know how to incorporate the changes you are suggesting to
correct the conversion factor problem in aerosol data.

If anyone has the corrected aerosol data then I request him/her to put it
on the website so that I may download it. Best thing would be if Bi does
it on the ICTP RegCM webpage.

Konare, can you send me the corrected aerosol data.

Thanks.

Dilip.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Abdourahamane Konare wrote:

>
> Hi Dilip,
> cd PreProc/DATA/AERGLOB/orig
>
> check the factors of conversion in conv_bin.f as I suggested to you
> change them based on the attached document of the previous mail
> run conv_bin.x, this will create the new AEROSOL.dat file which will be used in ICBC
> copy in AERGLOB the AEROSOL.dat or ( check the link to it from the AEROSOL.f )
> so when running icbc.x, you will have the new aerosol dataset that will be used for your simulations.
>
> Konare
>
> PS if you don't change any thing it will used the AEROSOL.dat that already exist when downloading the model and data.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dilip Ganguly wrote: Hi Konare,
> Many thanks for your reply. However, I am not able to understand where
> should I find the conv_bin.f routine. I can understand that there is a
> mistake of conversion factor but how do I correct my aerosol data. Even
> Solmon was saying the same thing to me. I am not generating the aerosol
> data from any inventory database but I am using whatever is provided in
> the ICTP website.
>
> Long back Bi had sent an email mentioning some improvements in
> AEROSOL.dat. I have downloaded the aerosol data (AEROSOL.dat and
> AEROSOL.ctl) from the ICTP website after this announcement and I expected
> the aerosol data to be corrected for the same bug. However, it may so
> happen that the aerosol data available in the ICTP website was not updated
> for the bug related to conversion factor.
>
> I would like to know if the aerosol data currently available in the ICTP
> website is corrected for conversion factor problem. If not then from where
> I can get the corrected aerosol data.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dilip.
>
>
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Abdourahamane Konare wrote:
>
> > Hi Dilip,
> > The problem you mentioned at your second point is coming from the conv_bin.f routine in AEROSOL/orig. There is a mistake in the conversion factors : ! kg/yr/1x1 cell ==> kg/m2/s, have a look in the file attached ( from the previous version) and replace accordingly the coefficients a(i,j)=a(i,j)/(0.5*(ax1+ax2)*by)/86400/365 in conv_bin.f by the corresponding one in the file attached, this will deal with the second point. The problem you mentioned in point one which has been dealt before however if it remains let me know then i will send to you my Main which works.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> >
> > Konare
> > Dilip Ganguly wrote: Hi everyone,
> >
> > As pointed out by Solmon, I have made the correction in my
> > RegCM/Main/aermix.f code. However, even after making this change, I am
> > getting exactly the same result as my previous model output obtained
> > without incorporating this correction.
> >
> > I am surprised to find that the values of aerosol extinction (aext8) and
> > all other tracer mixing ratios are exactly same at all atmospheric levels.
> > There is absolutely no difference in their magnitudes at different heights
> > (sigma pressure levels). This is not expected and it can not be true.
> >
> > Another surprising thing which I have noticed is that aerosol extinction
> > values are controlled by the dust loading alone. None of the other tracers
> > such as BC or OC seem to have any affect on the aerosol extinction.
> > Aerosol extinction values (aext8) obtained from RegCM simulation are
> > unbelievably low over the regions where there is high column burden of BC
> > and OC aerosols. This is a contradiction. I am not able to understand if I
> > am making any mistakes while setting various parameters in my simulations
> > or BC/OC aerosols simulated by the model does not radiatively interact in
> > the RegCM3 model and hence it is not possible to study the effect of these
> > aerosols on climate using the present version of the model.
> >
> > I have attached my domain.param and regcm.in files along with this mail so
> > that it may be checked if I have set all the parameters correctly for
> > including dust/aerosols in my model simulation.
> >
> > I made following changes in the RegCM/Main/parame file to include all the
> > ten tracers
> >
> > integer ntr ! tracer number
> > parameter( ntr = 10)
> > integer nbin ! bins number ( dust)
> > parameter(nbin = 4)
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Can anybody tell, what is going wrong in my RegCM3 aerosol simulation.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Dilip.
> >
> >
> >
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Space And Atmospheric Sciences Division
Physical Research Laboratory
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Gujarat, India
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