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This wiki is a guide to using the "clean-sky" radiative calculations within WRF-Chem to determine the aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions within your model simulations.

The analysis enabled by the scripts provided here was described in Ghan et al (2012); and the application of this analysis within WRF-Chem is described in Archer-Nicholls et al (2016). If you use the scripts provided here please do reference these two papers in your publications (and provide a link to this repository).

Contents

1. WRF-Chem code description
2. WRF-Chem scenario setup, and namelist settings to use
3. Post-processing analysis scripts.

References

Archer-Nicholls, S. et al., 2016. Aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions in a regional coupled model: the effects of convective parameterisation and resolution. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 16(9), pp.5573–5594. Available at: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/16/5573/2016/.

Ghan, S. J., Liu, X., Easter, R. C., Zaveri, R., Rasch, P. J., Yoon, J.-H., and Eaton, B.: Toward a Minimal Representation of Aerosols in Climate Models: Comparative Decomposition of Aerosol Direct, Semidirect, and Indirect Radiative Forcing, J. Climate, 25, 6461–6476, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00650.1, 2012.