The Aerosol Modeling Testbed provides the global modeling community with a way to systematically and objectively evaluate
aerosol process modules to quantify uncertainties and improve global climate models.
Typically, scientists incorporate new
aerosol process modules into models and then evaluate them using limited laboratory or field data.
Now, with the Aerosol Modeling Testbed, scientists can systematically and objectively evaluate new
aerosol process modules over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
The tool suite documents the performance of specific
aerosol process modules.
«The Aerosol Modeling Testbed: A Community Tool to Objectively Evaluate
Aerosol Process Modules,» Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 92, 343 - 360.
«Aerosol modeling today is very haphazard; there is not a lot of systematic testing and evaluation of new
aerosol process modules.
The AMT, for example, is designed to evaluate the performance of
aerosol process modules that calculate specific climate - relevant atmospheric processes.
As a package, it evaluates the performance of
aerosol process modules across a wide range of field measurements.
Not exact matches
But a reminder, you are doing V&V on the dynamic core, the bottom boundary conditions (like orography), each individual parameterization (e.g. radiative transfer, convection, boundary layer, clouds, etc), and in the case of coupled models the ocean
module, the sea ice
module, the land
process module, the
aerosol module (and in future the ice sheet
module), in stand alone mode as well as when coupled in the climate model.