Comparison and visualisation of high-resolution transport modelling with aircraft measurements

O'Connor, F. M., Carver, G. D., Savage, N. H., Pyle, J. A., Methven, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7636-6872, Arnold, S. R., Dewey, K. and Kent, J. (2005) Comparison and visualisation of high-resolution transport modelling with aircraft measurements. Atmospheric Science Letters, 6 (3). pp. 164-170. ISSN 1530-261X doi: 10.1002/asl.111

Abstract/Summary

This article presents a case study of a comparison of an Eulerian chemical transport model (CTM) and Lagrangian chemical model with measurements taken by aircraft. High-resolution Eulerian integrations produce improved point-by-point comparisons between model results and measurements compared to low resolution. The Lagrangian model requires mixing to be introduced in order to model the measurements.