Global Burden History

Global Tropospheric Aerosol Burdens

The table below lists the mean annual global tropospheric burden of several aerosol species in [Tg]. All values are obtained from 1-year benchmark simulations at 4° x 5° resolution.

Version	Met	Year	BCPI [Tg]	SO4 [Tg]	DST1 [Tg]	SALA [Tg]	SALC [Tg]
v9-01-01	GEOS-5	2005	0.10048	1.43407	3.05580	0.24207	4.30611
v9-01-02	GEOS-5	2005	0.09319	1.43257	3.05580	0.24207	4.30611
v9-01-03e	GEOS-5	2005	0.08214	1.36066	2.82432	0.18319	3.58638
v9-02r	GEOS-FP	Aug 2012–Jul 2013	0.07163	1.22752	2.89732	0.31730	3.53138
v10-01i	GEOS-FP	2013	0.07229	1.30046	2.74025	0.31436	3.45194
v10-01-public-release	GEOS-FP	2013	0.07191	1.27625	2.76035	0.31492	3.45438
v11-01b	GEOS-FP	2013	0.06660	1.15854	1.73149	0.30742	3.43034
v11-01d	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0643855	1.16159	1.73150	0.305502	3.41605
v11-01f	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0627834	1.21883	1.70350	0.294733	3.29636
v11-01f	MERRA-2	2013	0.0594409	1.10754	1.61370	0.283402	3.30325
v11-01g	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0627834	1.22138	1.70350	0.294733	3.29636

--Lizzie Lundgren (talk) 19:19, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 19:58, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

Global Tropospheric Mean Aerosol Optical Depth

The table below lists the mean annual global tropospheric AOD (unitless) of several aerosol species at 550 nm. All values are calculated using area-weighted results of the 1-year benchmark simulation at 4° x 5° resolution.

Version	Met	Year	Dust (OPD)	Sulfate (OPSO4550)	Black Carbon (OPBC550)	Organic Carbon (OPOC550)	Sea Salt (accum) (OPSSa550)	Sea Salt (coarse) (OPSSc550)
v9-01-02	GEOS-5	2005	0.0224113	0.0367532	0.0017757	0.0116006	0.0111244	0.0327837
v9-01-03e	GEOS-5	2005	0.0168477	0.0341691	0.0016027	0.0115031	0.0085201	0.0275230
v9-02r	GEOS-FP	Aug 2012–Jul 2013	0.0191158	0.0261542	0.0014462	0.0067417	0.0140127	0.0263276
v10-01i	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0180543	0.0274554	0.0008177	0.0057403	0.0139580	0.0258024
v10-01-public-release	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0181874	0.0269455	0.0008130	0.0056258	0.0140464	0.0258538
v11-01b	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0097335	0.0256278	0.0007577	0.0080281	0.0137684	0.0255540
v11-01d	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0097336	0.0256808	0.0007353	0.0093898	0.0137217	0.0277927
v11-01f	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0095619	0.0263576	0.0007190	0.0091247	0.0132438	0.0268576
v11-01f	MERRA-2	2013	0.0091397	0.0244991	0.0006857	0.0085464	0.0129497	0.0271307
v11-01g	GEOS-FP	2013	0.0095619	0.0263257	0.0007190	0.0090733	0.0132438	0.0268576

--Lizzie Lundgren (talk) 18:45, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 20:00, 26 September 2016 (UTC)