Modified Radiative Code for WRF-Chem to calculate Aerosol Radiative Effects.
Contents of this repository are:
WRF-Chem_code: modified files for a range of versions of WRF-Chem (upto 3.9.1). Replace the original files with these in order to add the clean atmosphere radiative calls. This code was added to WRF-Chem version 4.0, and so no modification of the code should be needed if you are using this version, or later.
analysis_scripts: NCL scripts for extracting the necessary data, and python scripts for using this data for plotting the radiative forcings.
For information on how to run the model, and use these scripts, to fully determine the aerosol-radiation-cloud interactions, see the wiki page here: https://github.com/douglowe/WRFChem-ARC-Interactions/wiki
Acknowledgements: If you use this analysis method please reference these papers:
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.
If you use the analysis code provided here please also acknowledge this, and provide a link to this repository in your publications.