CAMAERA results presented at High Latitude Dust workshop

Emission of biomass burning aerosols

The 9th High Latitude Dust workshop took place in Reykjavik (Iceland) on 12th-13th of February 2025. This workshop was dedicated to the observing, understanding and modelling of processing leading to high latitude dust (HLD) emissions. HYGEOS scientist, Samuel Rémy, presented results from the CAMAERA project relating to the representation of HLD sources in the global CAMS system.

Two approaches are being tested: an update of the dust source function (DSF) to include HLD source regions (figure below centre), and a new dust emission scheme that has the capability to represent HLD sources (figure below right). Preliminary results indicate that the second option gives best results for the representation of Iceland HLD sources. Fruitful discussion about the results ensued the presentation.

Simulated dust surface concentration over Iceland in June 2019, operational cycle 49R1
Simulated dust surface concentration over Iceland in June 2019 with an update of the dust source function
Simulated dust surface concentration over Iceland in June 2019 using the new dust emission scheme

Simulated dust surface concentration over Iceland in June 2019 by three IFS-COMPO simulations without data assimilation: Left, operational cycle 49R1; centre, using the updated dust source function; right, using the new dust emission scheme