Incorporating An Advanced Aerosol Activation Parameterization into WRF-CAM5: Model

Yang Zhang, Xin Zhang, Kai Wang, Jian He, L. Ruby Leung, Jiwen Fan, and Athanasios 3 Nenes 5 4 5 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 6 USA. 7 Collaborative Innovation Center for Regional Environmental Quality, Beijing 100084, China} 8 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA. 9 School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA 10 School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA 11 12 *Corresponding author: Yang Zhang, Department of MEAS, NCSU, Campus Box 8208, Raleigh, NC 27695-8208, 13 USA. Tel: 919 515 9688; fax: 919 515 7802. Email address: [email protected] 14 15 Key Points: First comprehensive evaluation of a fully-coupled WRF-CAM5 in East Asia; 16 Comparison of two aerosol activation schemes (AR-G00 and FN series) in WRF-CAM5; 17 The FN-based scheme can better simulate cloud properties and precipitation 18 19 Abstract 20