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Article Dans Une Revue Geoscientific Model Development Année : 2023

AerSett v1.0: a simple and straightforward model for the settling speed of big spherical atmospheric aerosols

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This study introduces AerSett v1.0 (AERosol SETTling version 1.0), a model giving the settling speed of big spherical aerosols in the atmosphere without going through an iterative equation resolution. We prove that, for all spherical atmospheric aerosols with diameter D up to 1000 µm, this direct and explicit method including the drag coefficient formulation of Clift and Gauvin (1971) and the Davies (1945) slip correction factor gives results within 2 % of the exact solution obtained from the numerical resolution of a non-linear fixed-point equation. This error is acceptable considering the uncertainties on the drag coefficient formulations themselves. For D < 100 µm, the error is below 0.5 %. We provide a Fortran implementation of this simple and straightforward model, hoping that more chemistrytransport models (CTMs) and general circulation models will be able to take into account large-particle drag correction to the settling speed of big spherical aerosol particles in the atmosphere, without performing an iterative and timeconsuming calculation.
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hal-04107228 , version 1 (26-05-2023)

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Sylvain Mailler, Laurent Menut, Arineh Cholakian, Romain Pennel. AerSett v1.0: a simple and straightforward model for the settling speed of big spherical atmospheric aerosols. Geoscientific Model Development, 2023, 16, pp.1119 - 1127. ⟨10.5194/gmd-16-1119-2023⟩. ⟨hal-04107228⟩
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