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 CAMChem and MUSICA
• 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 on the climate system
• Importance an improved scalability of lightening parameterizations with changing scales
• Important couplings between atmosphere and other components (land and ocean)
• Updates in aqueous-phase chemistry
• Changes in atmosphere composition a changing climate