Current State of the global operational aerosol multi-model ensemble: an update from the International Cooperative for Aerosol Prediction (ICAP)
Peng Xian1, Jeffrey S Reid2, Edward J Hyer3, Charles R Sampson4, Juli Rubin5, Melanie Ades6, Nicole Asencio7, Sara Basart8, Angela Benedetti9, Partha Sarathi S Bhattacharjee10, Malcome Brooks11, Peter Richard Colarco12, Arlindo da SIlva13, Tom Eck14, Jonathan Guth15, Oriol Jorba16, Rostislav Kouznetsov17, Zak Kipling6, Mikhail Sofiev17, Carlos Pérez García-Pando18, Yaswant Pradhan11, Taichu Y Tanaka19, Jun Wang20, Douglas L Westphal21, Keiya Yumimoto22 and Jianglong Zhang23, (1)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Marine Meteorology, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, United States, (3)Harvard-Smithsonian CFA, Cambridge, United States, (4)NRL Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States, (5)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (6)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (7)dMétéo-France, Toulouse, France, (8)Barcelona SupercomputingCenter, Barcelona, Spain, (9)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (10)IMSG at NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (11)UK Met Office, Reading, United Kingdom, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (14)USRA, Greenbelt, United States, (15)Météo-France, Toulous, France, (16)Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain, (17)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (18)Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Barcelona, Spain, (19)Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan, (20)NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (21)Naval Research Lab, Monterey, CA, United States, (22)Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (23)U of N Dakota-Atmos Sciences, Grand Forks, ND, United States