Dust emission in CMAQv5.4

[hogrefe.christian]

Hi Kai,

if you’re planning on adjusting NOAH soil moisture for compatibility with the CMAQ WBD module, you might also be interested in this earlier discussion in post 13 of this thread

BELD5-compliant input files for WBDUST in CMAQv5.3.2

Thanks @skunwar, @FengLiu and @fliu for your updates. For the issue of BELD3 vs. BELD4/BELD5, our current thinking is that future model releases may remove the option to use any version of BELD to obtain fractional land use information, instead requiring this information to be available through the MCIP files. No decision has been made, but since it seems possible to provide fractional land use information for any WRF LSM through MCIP (either because the wrfout files already contain this inform…

and specifically the reference to the Campbell et al. study.

Christian