Research Article
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 schemea | 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 |
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