AerChemMIP diagnostics

Model diagnostics specific to AerChemMIP Tier 1 experiments need to be implemented also in the DECK and CMIP6-historical-simulation. The diagnostics will be contributed to the CMIP6 data request by AerChemMIP. If models have not all components to compute dynamic aerosols, tropospheric or stratospheric chemistry, models are requested to consider using the forcing fields of chemical compounds provided by AerChemMIP when performing AerChemMIP Tier 1 experiments.

AerChemMIP will contribute to the CMIP6 data request by suggesting aerosol and chemistry related output that is required for model evaluation (including the characterization of air quality extremes) and for diagnosing radiative forcings from NTCFs. In addition, AerChemMIP will contribute to the development of the Earth System Model Evaluation Tools (ESMValTool, [Righi et al., 2014]), the documentation of aerosol parameters via the AeroCom tools and will include important chemistry-related diagnostics and performance metrics for CMIP6 model evaluation.

Diagnostics Excl file version April 10 2016