Title
Modeling an Extreme Dust Deposition Event to the French Alpine Seasonal Snowpack in April 2018: Meteorological Context and Predictions of Dust Deposition
Date Issued
27 April 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Baladima F.
Thomas J.L.
Voisin D.
Dumont M.
Kumar R.
Lavaysse C.
Marelle L.
Parrington M.
Flemming J.
Université Grenoble Alpes
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Abstract
Mineral dust is an important aerosol in the atmosphere and is known to reduce snow albedo upon deposition. Model predictions of dust deposition events in snow covered mountain regions are challenging due to the complexity of aerosol-cloud interactions and the specifics of mountain meteorological systems. We use a case study of dust deposition between 30 March and 5 April 2018 to the French alpine snowpack to study the processes that control dust deposition to the seasonal snowpack. To understand processes controlling dust transport and deposition to snow, we use a combination of in situ observations at Col du Lautaret in the French Alps, satellite remote sensing, the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) reanalysis global atmospheric composition, and the regional model WRF-Chem. Specifically, we investigate the role of increased model spatial resolution within WRF-Chem in capturing mountain meteorology, precipitation, and predicted dust deposition. Regional model results are also compared to the reanalysis global CAMS products including aerosols in the atmosphere and predicted dust deposition fluxes. We conclude that predicted mountain meteorology (e.g., precipitation) is better with increased model resolution (3 × 3 km resolution WRF-Chem domain). This improved meteorology has significant impacts on predicted dry and wet dust deposition to the alpine snowpack. Dry deposition is important in the western part of the French Alps at low altitudes, while wet deposition dominates over the complex higher altitude mountain terrain.
Volume
127
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Geoquímica, Geofísica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85128804395
Source
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
ISSN of the container
2169897X
Sponsor(s)
IGE and CNRM?CEN are part of Labex OSUG@2020 (investissement d'avenir ? ANR10 LABX56). This work was performed using HPC resources from GENCI-ID-RIS (Grant A007017141) and the IPSL mesoscale computing center (CICLAD: Calcul Intensif pour le CLimat, l?Atmosph?re et la Dynamique). This study was supported by the Ecole Doctorale Terre Univers Environnement of Grenoble and part of it by Early Career Scientist Assembly (ECSA) FY2020 National Center for Atmospheric Research/Research Applications Laboratory (NCAR/RAL) sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). This work was partly supported by Lautaret Garden ? UMS 3370 (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, SAJF, 38000 Grenoble, France), a member of AnaEE France (ANR-11-INBS- 0001 AnaEE-Services, Investissements d?Avenir frame) and of the eLTER European network (Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LTSER Zone Atelier Alpes, 38000 Grenoble, France) and by ANR grant EBONI (ANR-16-CE01-0006). Marie Dumont has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 949516, IVORI). We acknowledge Institute of Environmental Geosciences (IGE) for administrative support. We acknowledge the use of the WRF-Chem pre-processor tools provided by the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Lab (ACOM) of NCAR. We acknowledge NCAR ACOM for providing the WRF-Chem chemical boundary conditions used in this study. We acknowledge Meteo France for providing SAFRAN reanalysis data used in this study. We acknowledge the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center's PMM Science Team and PPS, which develop and compute the Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals as a contribution to GPM, and archived at the NASA GES DISC. We acknowledge the Emissions of atmospheric Compounds and Compilation of Ancillary Data (ECCAD) for providing anthropogenic emissions used in this study. We thank the CAMS development and support teams at ECMWF for providing dust deposition rates used in this study. We thank B. Boudevillain and F.Tuzet for supporting this work by providing helpful information for observation data used in this study.
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