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Forecasting global atmospheric CO2

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A new global atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) real-time forecast is now available as part of the pre-operational Monitoring of Atmospheric Composition and Climate-Interim Implementation (MACC-II) service using the infrastructure of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Integrated Forecasting System (IFS). One of the strengths of the CO 2 forecasting system is that the land surface, including vegetation CO 2 fluxes, is modelled online within the IFS. Other CO 2 fluxes are prescribed from inventories and from off-line statistical and physical models. The CO 2 forecast also benefits from the transport modelling from a state-of-the-art numerical weather prediction (NWP) system initialized daily with a wealth of meteorological observations. This paper describes the capability of the forecast in modelling the variability of CO 2 on different temporal and spatial scales compared to observations. The modulation of the amplitude of the CO 2 diurnal cycle by near-surface winds and boundary layer height is generally well represented in the forecast. The CO 2 forecast also has high skill in simulating day-today synoptic variability. In the atmospheric boundary layer, this skill is significantly enhanced by modelling the day-today variability of the CO 2 fluxes from vegetation compared to using equivalent monthly mean fluxes with a diurnal cycle. However, biases in the modelled CO 2 fluxes also lead to accumulating errors in the CO 2 forecast. These biases vary with season with an underestimation of the amplitude of the seasonal cycle both for the CO 2 fluxes compared to total optimized fluxes and the atmospheric CO 2 compared to observations. The largest biases in the atmospheric CO 2 forecast are found in spring, corresponding to the onset of the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere. In the future, the forecast will be re-initialized regularly with atmospheric CO 2 analyses based on the assimilation of CO 2 products retrieved from satellite measurements and CO 2 in situ observations, as they become available in near-real time. In this way, the accumulation of errors in the atmospheric CO 2 forecast will be reduced. Improvements in the CO 2 forecast are also expected with the continuous developments in the operational IFS.
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hal-02930067 , version 1 (07-10-2020)

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A. Agustí-Panareda, S. Massart, F. Chevallier, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, et al.. Forecasting global atmospheric CO2. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2014, 14 (21), pp.11959-11983. ⟨10.5194/acp-14-11959-2014⟩. ⟨hal-02930067⟩
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