[Feature]: Add aerosol burden to lat-lon and other core sets

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[Feature]: Add aerosol burden to lat-lon and other core sets #760

Closed chengzhuzhang closed 9 months ago

chengzhuzhang commented 9 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Global mean aerosol burden is included in the aerosol budget table. To add 2D aerosol burden in lat-lon sets would allow showing the global distribution as well as global metrics. It can also serve as back up if the aerosol budget table is not available.

Describe the solution you'd like

Including aerosol burden in standard lat-lon sets, and compare with obs/reanalysis if available.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

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mahf708 commented 9 months ago

@chengzhuzhang, once we implement this, it may be desirable to include interesting 2D terms to the PR (for example, I am thinking of cdnc and some derived ccn fields). But, while relevant to these burdens, it is a lower priority. (Also strictly unrelated to the standard output, I should add, just to have them be available as derived h0 parameters)

chengzhuzhang commented 9 months ago

@mahf708 Thank you so much for volunteering working on this. Yes! definitely worthwhile to extend beyond lat-lon set. Let's shoot for model data for now and we can add proper reference data when become available.

mahf708 commented 9 months ago

Sounds good. Will address this pretty soon (but definitely before Monday). I will need to review my code elsewhere, but if I remember correctly, I believe we just need:

[x] add derivations under acme for variables of interest (ABURDEN..., ..._SRF, cdnc, etc.)
[x] add specs in cfg files (I will copy my old settings to see how they look)

chengzhuzhang commented 9 months ago

Your plan sounds great! Thank you.