Development of a Dust-Iron Modeling System and a Benchmarking Regional Dust-Iron Budget Study
Final Report Abstract
The aims of the project are to develop a regional model for dust-iron modelling and carry out high-resolution simulation over Australia and use the results as benchmark for global dust-iron budget estimates. Most of the planned research activities are completed. These include (1) Establishment of a surface dust-iron data base for the Australian continent and a methodology for similar work applicable to other continents; (2) Development of a module for dust-iron emission in the WRF (Weather Research and Forecast) model framework. It is now built in WRF and made available to other researchers; (3) Development of dust-iron transport modules in WRF, for example, a dust-iron wet deposition scheme which was missing in WRF but necessary for our study; (4) Establishment and testing of a dust-iron ensemble modelling procedure; (5) Process of ground-based dust-iron measurements obtained from the Australian DustWatch network.
Publications
- 2015: A numerical study on dust devil dust transport: Implications to regional and global dust budget estimates. AGU Fall Meeting
M Klose, Y Shao
- 2016: A note on the stochastic nature of particle cohesive force and implications to threshold friction velocity for aerodynamic dust entrainment. Aeolian Research 22, 123-125
Y Shao and M Klose
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.08.004) - 2016: A numerical study on dust devils with implications to global dust budget estimates. Aeolian research 22, 47-58
Klose M and Y Shao
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.05.003) - 2018: A simulation study of dust-borne iron transport during the Australian ‚red dawn event in 2009. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts 20, 19104
Ulbrich S, S Albani, S Heidenreich, J F Leys and Y Shao
