CRESCENDO has been a large HORIZON2020 project involving several research Institutions in Europe and the United Kingdom. I participated in several workpackages coordinated in UK (Met-Office and University of Leeds) but there were others different workpages covering many aspects where Earth System Modelling (ESM) is important. My peer-review contributionss have been a detailed analysis of mineral dust with 5 ESMs Checa-Garcia et al. (2021), and my participation in the analysis of effective raditive forcing Thornhill et al. (2021) and Thornhill et al. (2021).
Motivation
Earth system models (ESMs) are the primary tools available for making future projections of global climate change, linking such projected changes to allowable carbon emissions commensurate with staying below a given warming target. ESMs allow an assessment of the potential response of the full global environment (including biological and chemical components) to future climate change. Such assessments are important for developing sustainable future development pathways.
Final Online Meeting
Due to COVID the last meeting of CRESCENDO project has been online. In the zenodo repository there is a document with the presentations of the several authors: Slides of CRESCENDO final meeting
References:
R. Checa-Garcia, Y. Balkanski, S. Albani, T. Bergman, K. Carslaw, A. Cozic, C. Dearden, B. Marticorena, M. Michou, T. van Noije, P. Nabat, F. O'Connor, D. Olivié, J. M. Prospero, P. Le Sager, M. Schulz, and C. Scott.
Evaluation of natural aerosols in crescendo-esms: mineral dust.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21:10295–10335, 2021.
URL: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/10295/2021/acp-21-10295-2021.html, doi:10.5194/acp-21-10295-2021. ↩
G. Thornhill, W. Collins, D. Olivié, R. B. Skeie, A. Archibald, S. Bauer, R. Checa-Garcia, S. Fiedler, G. Folberth, A. Gjermundsen, L. Horowitz, J.-F. Lamarque, M. Michou, J. Mulcahy, P. Nabat, V. Naik, F. M. O'Connor, F. Paulot, M. Schulz, C. E. Scott, R. Séférian, C. Smith, T. Takemura, S. Tilmes, K. Tsigaridis, and J. Weber.
Climate-driven chemistry and aerosol feedbacks in cmip6 earth system models.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(2):1105–1126, 2021.
URL: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1105/2021/, doi:10.5194/acp-21-1105-2021. ↩
G. D. Thornhill, W. J. Collins, R. J. Kramer, D. Olivié, R. B. Skeie, F. M. O'Connor, N. L. Abraham, R. Checa-Garcia, S. E. Bauer, M. Deushi, L. K. Emmons, P. M. Forster, L. W. Horowitz, B. Johnson, J. Keeble, J.-F. Lamarque, M. Michou, M. J. Mills, J. P. Mulcahy, G. Myhre, P. Nabat, V. Naik, N. Oshima, M. Schulz, C. J. Smith, T. Takemura, S. Tilmes, T. Wu, G. Zeng, and J. Zhang.
Effective radiative forcing from emissions of reactive gases and aerosols – a multi-model comparison.
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21(2):853–874, 2021.
URL: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/21/853/2021/, doi:10.5194/acp-21-853-2021. ↩