Abstract

Aerosol particles are interesting from many viewpoints - e.g. pollutant impact on ecosystems, climatic impact on the hydrologic cycle and through radiative properties - and can also be a tool for satellite measurements. Atmospheric general circulation models having proved their capability to reproduce the main features of climate, can be appropriate tools to study the atmospheric cycles of aerosol particles. Such simulations cannot be done without a severe comparison with observations, but afterwards they can give an extensive 3-dimensional vision of the tracer cycles and be used for sensitivity or forecasting studies.

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