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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
卷 14, 期 1, 页码 409-436出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-409-2021
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- European Commission, H2020 Excellence Science (ChEESE) [823844]
- European Commission, H2020 Marie SklodowskaCurie Actions (STARS) [754433]
- European Commission, H2020 Research Infrastructures (EUROVOLC) [731070]
- Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca [805 FOE 2015]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [754433] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
This paper presents model validation results for the latest version of the FALL3D atmospheric transport model, based on the new FALL3D-8.0 test suite. The results show good agreement between the model and satellite retrievals for simulating volcanic ash and SO2, as well as between the model and observations for tephra deposit loads and radionuclides in specific case studies.
This paper presents model validation results for the latest version release of the FALL3D atmospheric transport model. The code has been redesigned from scratch to incorporate different categories of species and to overcome legacy issues that precluded its preparation towards extreme-scale computing. The model validation is based on the new FALL3D-8.0 test suite, which comprises a set of four real case studies that encapsulate the major features of the model; namely, the simulation of long-range fine volcanic ash dispersal, volcanic SO2 dispersal, tephra fallout deposits and the dispersal and deposition of radionuclides. The first two test suite cases (i.e. the June 2011 Puyehue-Cordon Caulle ash cloud and the June 2019 Raikoke SO2 cloud) are validated against geostationary satellite retrievals and demonstrate the new FALL3D data insertion scheme. The metrics used to validate the volcanic ash and SO2 simulations are the structure, amplitude and location (SAL) metric and the figure of merit in space (FMS). The other two test suite cases (i.e. the February 2013 Mt. Etna ash cloud and associated tephra fallout deposit, and the dispersal of radionuclides resulting from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident) are validated with scattered ground-based observations of deposit load and local particle grain size distributions and with measurements from the Radioactivity Environmental Monitoring database. For validation of tephra deposit loads and radionuclides, we use two variants of the normalised root-mean-square error metric. We find that FALL3D-8.0 simulations initialised with data insertion consistently improve agreement with satellite retrievals at all lead times up to 48 h for both volcanic ash and and FMS scores greater than 0.40 indicate acceptable agreement with satellite retrievals of volcanic ash and SO2. In addition, we show very good agreement, across several orders of magnitude, between the model and observations for the 2013 Mt. Etna and 1986 Chernobyl case studies. Our results, along with the validation datasets provided in the publicly available test suite, form the basis for future improvements to FALL3D (version 8 or later) and also allow for model intercomparison studies.
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