Working Group Priorities

Priorities

• Support model developments for CAM7-chem Workhorse model in collaboration with other working groups with focus on chemistry and aerosols
• Participation in model intercomparison projects (MIPs)
• Development of regional refined configurations for CAM-chem through the MUSICA framework
• Support and analysis of Aircraft campaigns (e.g., ATom, KORUS-AQ, SOAS, NOMADSS, SEAC4RS)
• Development of chemical forecasting capabilities and data assimilation

Open Science Questions

• The role of interactive fires in the climate system
• Importance of an improved scalability of lightning parameterizations with changing scales
• Couplings between atmosphere and other components (land and ocean)
• Updates in aqueous-phase chemistry
• Changes in atmosphere composition in a changing climate