Implementation and evaluation of diabatic advection in the Lagrangian transport model MPTRAC 2.6

Author:

Clemens JanORCID,Hoffmann LarsORCID,Vogel BärbelORCID,Grießbach SabineORCID,Thomas Nicole

Abstract

Abstract. Diabatic transport schemes with hybrid zeta coordinates, which follow isentropes in the stratosphere, are known to greatly improve Lagrangian transport calculations compared to the kinematic approach. However, some Lagrangian transport calculations with a diabatic approach, such as the Chemical Lagrangian Transport Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS), are not well prepared to run on modern high-performance computing (HPC) architectures. Here, we implemented and evaluated a new diabatic transport scheme in the Massive-Parallel Trajectory Calculations (MPTRAC) model. While MPTRAC can be used either with shared-memory multiprocessing on CPUs or with GPUs to offload computationally intensive calculations, making it flexible for many HPC applications, it has been limited to kinematic trajectories in pressure coordinates. The extended modelling approach now enables the use of either kinematic or diabatic vertical velocities and the coupling of different MPTRAC modules based on pressure or hybrid zeta coordinates. This study focus on the accuracy of the implementation in comparison to the CLaMS model. The evaluation of the new transport scheme in MPTRAC shows that, after 90 d of forward calculations, distributions of air parcels in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) are almost identical for MPTRAC and CLaMS. No significant bias between the two Lagrangian models was found. Furthermore, after 1 d, internal uncertainties (e.g. due to interpolation or the numerical integration method) in the Lagrangian transport calculations are at least 1 order of magnitude smaller than external uncertainties (e.g. from reanalysis selection or downsampling of ERA5). Differences between trajectories using either CLaMS or MPTRAC are on the order of the combined internal uncertainties within MPTRAC. Since the largest systematic differences are caused by the reanalysis and the vertical velocity (diabatic vs. kinematic), the results support the development efforts for trajectory codes that can access the full resolution of ERA5 in combination with diabatic vertical velocities. This work is part of a larger effort to adapt Lagrangian transport in state-of-the-art models such as CLaMS and MPTRAC to current and future HPC architectures and exascale applications.

Publisher

Copernicus GmbH

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