Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 9 6 2009 10.5194/acpd-9-24317-2009 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/24317/2009/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/24317/2009/acpd-9-24317-2009.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/9/24317/2009/acpd-9-24317-2009.pdf 24317 24360 2009-11-16 Sources of uncertainties in modelling Black Carbon at the global scale E. Vignati elisabetta.vignati@jrc.ec.europa.eu M. Karl M. Krol J. Wilson P. Stier F. Cavalli European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy Netherlands Institute for Space Research (SRON), Utrecht, The Netherlands Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK now at: Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway Our understanding of the global black carbon cycle is essentially qualitative due to uncertainties in our knowledge of the properties of black carbon. This work investigates uncertainties related to modelling black carbon: due to the use of different schemes for BC ageing and its removal rate in the global Transport-Chemistry model TM5 and due to the uncertainties in the definition and quantification of observed black carbon, which propagate through to both the emission inventories, and the measurements used for the model evaluation. The schemes for the atmospheric processing of black carbon that have been tested with the model are (i) a simple approach considering black carbon as bulk aerosol and a simple treatment in the removal and (ii) a more complete description of microphysical aging within an aerosol dynamics model, where removal is coupled to the microphysical properties of the aerosol. In the first approach a fixed 70% of black carbon is scavenged in clouds and removed when rain is present. The second leads to a global average of 40% black carbon that is scavenged in clouds and subsequently removed by rain, thus resulting in a longer lifetime. This difference is reflected in comparisons between both sets of modelled results and the measurements. Close to the sources, both anthropogenic and vegetation fire source regions, the model results do not differ significantly, showing that the emissions are the prevailing mechanism determining the concentrations and the choice of the aerosol scheme does not influence the levels. In more remote areas such as oceanic and polar regions the differences can be orders of magnitude, due to the differences between the two schemes. The more complete description reproduces the seasonal trend of the black carbon observations in those areas, although not always the magnitude of the signal, while the more simplified approach underestimates black carbon concentrations by orders of magnitude. The sensitivity to wet scavenging has been tested varying in-cloud and below-cloud removals. BC lifetime increases by 10% when large scale and convective scale precipitation are reduced by 30%, while the variation is very small when below-cloud scavenging is zero. 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