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mass redistribution between GOCART dust/sea salt and MOZAIC bins #677

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@saneku saneku commented Oct 24, 2018

TYPE: bug fix

KEYWORDS: optical_prep_gocart, volume-averaged refractive index, mass redistribution, AOD, WRF-Chem

SOURCE: Alexander Ukhov, KAUST

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:
Problem: There is a code in optical_prep_gocart procedure which calculates the contribution of the dust and sea salt bins into the MOZAIC bins. The code uses the interpolation over the linear axis but should use the interpolation over log axis. The similar bug was fixed In #536 "fixed coefficients for calculation of PM10 and PM2.5. For GOCART aerosol scheme".

Solution: use interpolation over the log axis instead of linear axis.

Effect: Interpolation over log axis changes the mass redistribution between the MOZAIC bins.
It leads to the increased contribution of the small dust and sea salt particles into the Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD). As a result of the correction, AOD is increasing.

DUST_1..5 are GOCART dust bins
MOZ0...7 are MOZAIC bins

dustfrc_goc8bin BEFORE THE CORRECTION:
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dustfrc_goc8bin AFTER THE CORRECTION:
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LIST OF MODIFIED FILES: M chem/module_optical_averaging.F

TESTS CONDUCTED:
The test case was run. The obtained result is expected: the AOD level has increased.

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MOZAIC bins should be computed using interpolation over the logarithmic axis
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Alexander,

  1. It looks like the title was truncated in a copy and paste?
  2. Would you please add a sentence before the two tables briefly describing what MOZ0-7 and DUST_1-5 are.
    Very nice PR.

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WRF Chem team,
Please provide a technical review.

@saneku saneku changed the title mass redistribution between GOCART dust/sea salt and mass redistribution between GOCART dust/sea salt and MOZAIC bins Oct 25, 2018
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saneku commented Oct 25, 2018

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Alexander,

  1. It looks like the title was truncated in a copy and paste?
  2. Would you please add a sentence before the two tables briefly describing what MOZ0-7 and DUST_1-5 are.
    Very nice PR.

1&2 are done
Thank you!

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@kayeekayee @ravanah @stacywalters
WRF Chem team,
Would one of the WRF Chem team please provide a technical review. Thanks

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stacywalters commented Oct 29, 2018 via email

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Stacy,
Perfect! Way to jump in.

  1. Send Mary a link to this PR. She does not need a GitHub account.
https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/pull/677
https://github.com/wrf-model/WRF/pull/677/files

She just needs to know to toggle to between these two pages.

  1. How about sending over to Mary a diff and the original version of the single file that has been changed?

Get to a clean place on a local machine, and get Alexander's code:

git clone https://github.com/saneku/WRF WRF_saneku

Get into that directory

cd WRF_saneku

Make a couple of the remotes local

git checkout release-v4.0.2
git checkout interpolation_over_log_axis

Get a difference of the impacted file

git diff interpolation_over_log_axis  release-v4.0.2 -- chem/module_optical_averaging.F

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davegill commented Nov 6, 2018

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Stacy,
We'd like to get the v4.0.2 out this week. Ravan said that he sent this mod over to Mary earlier, so both Ravan and Ka Yee are OK with this.

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stacywalters commented Nov 6, 2018 via email

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stacywalters commented Nov 6, 2018 via email

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davegill commented Nov 6, 2018

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Stacy,
Great! Just click on the "Add your review" link, and select the "approved" button.

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Approved.

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@davegill davegill merged commit 7d3542c into wrf-model:release-v4.0.2 Nov 6, 2018
weiwangncar pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 10, 2024
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TYPE: bug fix

KEYWORDS: WRF-Chem, GOCART, optical properties, dust, sea salt, AOD

SOURCE: KAUST

DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:
Problem:
It was found that WRF-Chem with GOCART aerosol scheme disregards the radiative effect of the largest dust and sea salt particles (5th and 4th bins).

Solution:
Mass redistribution between GOCART dust/sea salt and MOZAIC bins now accounts for the 5th dust and 4th sea salt bins. The number of MOZAIC bins was changed from 8 to 9 and MOZAIC max size range was increased from 10 to 20 um.

This PR is an addition to  #667 and #677 PR.

LIST OF MODIFIED FILES: 
M	chem/module_optical_averaging.F
M	chem/optical_driver.F

TESTS CONDUCTED: 
- 7-day WRF-Chem run over the Middle East with the GOCART aerosol scheme was conducted without the changes and with changes. As expected, AOD increased by 3% on average. Over dust source regions the AOD increase is more pronounced - 5% on average. See PR itself for details.
- The Jenkins tests are all passing.

RELEASE NOTE: Bug fix in the calculation of optical properties. Mass redistribution between GOCART dust/sea salt and MOZAIC bins was corrected. It slightly increased (by 3-5%) the aerosol optical depth
(AOD).
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