Aerosol data assimilation in the MOCAGE chemical transport model during the TRAQA/ChArMEx campaign: lidar observations

El Amraoui, Laaziz; Sič, Bojan; Piacentini, Andrea; Marécal, Virginie; Frebourg, Nicolas; Attié, Jean-Luc

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-4645-2020

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02 Sep 2020

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Aerosol data assimilation in the MOCAGE chemical transport model during the TRAQA/ChArMEx campaign: lidar observations

Laaziz El Amraoui, Bojan Sič, Andrea Piacentini, Virginie Marécal, Nicolas Frebourg, and Jean-Luc Attié

Data sets

ATR Core in-situ measurements - TRAQA B. Piguet and T. Perrin https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALS-ChArMEx.998

LOAC - TRAQA - Martigues J.-B. Renard https://doi.org/10.6096/MISTRALSChArMEx.833

Short summary

The aim of this paper is to present the assimilation of lidar observations from the CALIOP instrument onboard the CALIPSO satellite in the chemistry-transport model of Météo-France, MOCAGE. We presented the first results of the assimilation of the extinction coefficient observations of the CALIOP lidar instrument during the pre-ChArMEx-TRAQA field campaign. We evaluated the added value of the assimilation product to better document a desert dust transport event compared to the model free run.