Quantitative assessment of AOD from 17 CMIP5 models based on satellite-derived AOD over India

Misra, Amit; Kanawade, Vijay P.; Tripathi, Sachchida Nand

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-657-2016

Articles | Volume 34, issue 8

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-657-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-657-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 34, issue 8

Regular paper

|

03 Aug 2016

Regular paper |

| 03 Aug 2016

Quantitative assessment of AOD from 17 CMIP5 models based on satellite-derived AOD over India

Amit Misra, Vijay P. Kanawade, and Sachchida Nand Tripathi

Data sets

BADC, NEODC, UKSSDC, SPARC and IPCC-DDC data centres Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDC) http://www.ceda.ac.uk

MODIS Level 3 AOD data Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System (LAADS) http://ladsweb.nascom.nasa.gov/

Short summary

For an accurate understanding of earth climate system, it is necessary to evaluate the performance of the climate models used to perform these simulations. In this work we have examined aerosol optical depths simulated by 17 models by comparing them with satellite-derived aerosol optical depth. Our results indicate the role of dust aerosols and biogeochemistry in the simulation of aerosols by models.