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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1093
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1093
20 Oct 2022
 | 20 Oct 2022

Accelerating models for multiphase chemical kinetics through machine learning with polynomial chaos expansion and neural networks

Thomas Berkemeier, Matteo Krüger, Aryeh Feinberg, Marcel Müller, Ulrich Pöschl, and Ulrich K. Krieger

Abstract. The heterogeneous chemistry of atmospheric aerosols involves multiphase chemical kinetics that can be described by kinetic multi-layer models (KM) explicitly resolving mass transport and chemical reaction. However, KM are computationally too expensive to be used as sub-modules in large-scale atmospheric models, and the computational costs also limit their utility in inverse modelling approaches commonly used to infer aerosol kinetic parameters from laboratory studies. In this study, we show how machine learning methods can generate inexpensive surrogate models based on the kinetic multi-layer model of aerosol surface and bulk chemistry (KM-SUB). We apply and compare two common and openly available methods for the generation of surrogate models, polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) with UQLab and neural networks (NN) through the Python package Keras. We show that the PCE method is well-suited to determine global sensitivity indices of the KM and demonstrate how inverse modelling applications can be enabled or accelerated with NN-suggested sampling. These qualities make them suitable supporting tools for laboratory work in the interpretation of data and design of future experiments. Overall, the KM surrogate models investigated in this study are fast, accurate, and robust, which suggests their applicability as sub-modules in large-scale atmospheric models.

Thomas Berkemeier et al.

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  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1093', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Jan 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1093', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jan 2023
  • AC1: 'Response to reviewers of egusphere-2022-1093', Thomas Berkemeier, 15 Feb 2023

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1093', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Jan 2023
  • RC2: 'Comment on egusphere-2022-1093', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jan 2023
  • AC1: 'Response to reviewers of egusphere-2022-1093', Thomas Berkemeier, 15 Feb 2023

Thomas Berkemeier et al.

Thomas Berkemeier et al.

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Kinetic multi-layer models (KM) successfully describe heterogeneous and multiphase atmospheric chemistry. In applications requiring repeated execution, however, these models can be too expensive. We trained machine learning surrogate models on output of the model KM-SUB and achieve high correlations. The surrogate models run orders of magnitudes faster, which suggests potential applicability in global optimization tasks and as sub-modules in large-scale atmospheric models.