Model Simulations of Complex Dust Emissions over the Sahara during the West African Monsoon Onset

Table 1

Model configuration used for experimentation.

Model name	WRF-Chem
Reference	Grell et al. [45]
Boundary conditions	NCEP Final Analysis FNL (1.125 deg)
Domain	5°–30°N, 20°W-40°E and 8°N–29°N, 12°W-22°E
Horizontal resolution	30 km (EXP30) and 10 km (EXP10)
Dust-radiative feedback?	Yes
Vertical levels	50
Simulation period	05–15th June 2006 (EXP30) and 07–10th June 2006 (EXP10)
Height of lowest layer	40 m
Physical schemes	Microphysics: Purdue Lin scheme [61]; PBL: Mellor-Yamada-Janjić TKE scheme (MYJ) [62]; Surface: unified Noah land-surface model; Cumulus convection: Grell-3D [54]
Emission scheme^a	Ginoux et al. [46]
Soil texture data	12 texture classes based on FAO [63]
Number of dust bins	Total 5 size bins
Dust particle size range	0.1–10 μm