MUSICA Publications

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Full list of MUSICAv0 papers:

Ibarra-Espinosa, S., Dias de Freitas, E., Gaubert, B., Lichtig, P. et al. (2026), A Century of Vehicular Emissions in Brazil: Unveiling the Impacts of Unique Fuel Mix on Air Quality, Environmental Science & Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c08400

Mirrezaei, A. M., Tang, W., Gaubert, B., Guo, Y., Emmons, L. K., Sorooshian, A., and Arellano, A. F. Jr. (2026) Multiscale Modeling of Ozone Formation and Chemical Regimes in Arizona during the North American Monsoon, ACS ES&T Air, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.6c00170  

Murray, D. S., Buchholz, R. R., Emmons, L. K., Honomichl, S., Tang, W., Tilmes, S., Barth, M. and Wymore, A. S. (2026). Evaluating CAM‐chem modeled atmospheric wet deposition with observed long‐term records. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 131(2), e2025JD044196. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD044196   

Visaga, S. M. A., Pierce, R. B., Holz, R., Tang, W., Emmons, L., Pfister, G., et al. (2026). Impacts of maritime continent forest and peat fires on regional air quality during 2019 CAMP2Ex using MUSICAv0. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD046143  

Lorenzo, G. R., Ziemba, L. D., Arellano, A. F., Barth, M. C., Crosbie, E. C., DiGangi, J. P., Diskin, G. S., Ferrare, R., Hilario, M. R. A., Shook, M. A., Tilmes, S., Wang, J., Xiao, Q., Zhang, J., and Sorooshian, A. (2025) Measurement report: Characterization of aerosol hygroscopicity over Southeast Asia during the NASA CAMP2Ex campaign, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 25, 5469–5495, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-25-5469-2025 

Mariscal, N., Emmons, L. K., Jo, D. S., Xiong, Y., Judd, L. M., Janz, S. J., Chai, J., and Huang, Y. (2025) Evaluation of ozone and its precursors using the Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols Version 0 (MUSICAv0) during the Michigan–Ontario Ozone Source Experiment (MOOSE), Geosci. Model Dev., 18, 6737–6765, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-6737-2025 

Tang, W., Emmons, L. K., Wiedinmyer, C., Partha, D. B., Huang, Y., He, C., Zhang, J., Barsanti, K. C., Gaubert, B., Jo, D. S., Zhang, J., Buchholz, R., Tilmes, S., Vitt, F., Granier, C., Worden, H. M. & Levelt, P. F. (2025) Disproportionately large impacts of wildland-urban interface fire emissions on global air quality and human health.Sci. Adv.11,eadr2616, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr2616  

Lichtig, Pablo, Gaubert, B., Emmons, L. K., Jo, D. S., Callaghan, P., Ibarra-Espinosa, S., Dawidowski, L., Brasseur, G. P., Pfister, G.. (2024). Multiscale CO budget estimates across South America: quantifying local sources and long range transport, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD040434 

Lin, H., Emmons, L. K., Lundgren, E. W., Yang, L. H., Feng, X., Dang, R., Zhai, S., Tang, Y., Kelp, M. M., Colombi, N. K., Eastham, S. D., Fritz, T. M., and Jacob, D. J. (2024). Intercomparison of GEOS-Chem and CAM-chem tropospheric oxidant chemistry within the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 24, 8607–8624, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-8607-2024   

Yue, M., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Dong, X., Emmons, L. K., & Liang, Y. (2024). Weakened aerosol‐PBL interactions enhance future air quality benefits under carbon neutrality in China: Insights from the advanced variable‐resolution global model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 129, e2024JD041106., https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD041106 

Jo, Duseong S., Emmons, L. K., Callaghan, P., Tilmes, S., Woo, J.-H., Kim, Y., et al. (2023). Comparison of urban air quality simulations during the KORUS-AQ campaign with regionally refined versus global uniform grids in the Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (MUSICA) version 0. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003458. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003458 

Tang, W., Pfister, G. G., Kumar, R., Barth, M., Edwards, D. P., Emmons, L. K., & Tilmes, S. (2023). Capturing high‐resolution air pollution features using the multi‐scale infrastructure for chemistry and aerosols version 0 (MUSCIAv0) global modeling system. Journal Of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2022JD038345. doi:10.1029/2022JD038345

Tang, W., Emmons, L. K., Worden, H. M., Kumar, R., He, C., Gaubert, B., Zheng, Z., Tilmes, S., Buchholz, R. R., Martinez-Alonso, S.-E., Granier, C., Soulie, A., McKain, K., Daube, B., Peischl, J., Thompson, C., and Levelt, P. (2023).  Application of the Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols version 0 (MUSICAv0) for air quality in Africa, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 6001–6028, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-6001-2023.

Yue, M., Dong, X., Wang, M., Emmons, L. K., Liang, Y., Tong, D., et al. (2023). Modeling the air pollution and aerosol- PBL interactions over China using a variable-resolution global model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD039130. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023JD039130 

Schwantes et al. (2022). Evaluating the Impact of Chemical Complexity and Horizontal Resolution on Tropospheric Ozone Over the Conterminous US With a Global Variable Resolution Chemistry Model, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002889 (First description and evaluation paper of MUSICAv0).

Tang, W., Emmons, L. K., Buchholz, R. R., Wiedinmyer, C., Schwantes, R. H., He, C., et al. (2022). Effects of fire diurnal variation and plume rise on U.S. air quality during FIREX-AQ and WE-CAN based on the Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (MUSICAv0). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD036650. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JD036650

Lin, H., Jacob, D. J., Lundgren, E. W., Sulprizio, M. P., Keller, C. A., Fritz, T. M., Eastham, S. D., Emmons, L. K., Campbell, P. C., Baker, B., Saylor, R. D., and Montuoro, R. (2021). Harmonized Emissions Component (HEMCO) 3.0 as a versatile emissions component for atmospheric models: application in the GEOS-Chem, NASA GEOS, WRF-GC, CESM2, NOAA GEFS-Aerosol, and NOAA UFS models, Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 5487–5506, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-5487-2021, 2021.