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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-979</article-id>
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<article-title>Assessment of WRF-GHG model simulations during the CAFE-Brazil Campaign in Amazonia</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>R. Benavente</surname>
<given-names>Noelia</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8431-6528</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Botía</surname>
<given-names>Santiago</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5447-3968</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>V. Rizzo</surname>
<given-names>Luciana</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Vara-Vela</surname>
<given-names>Angel</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Artaxo</surname>
<given-names>Paulo</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7754-3036</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>van Asperen</surname>
<given-names>Hella</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9639-4547</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Santos da Silva</surname>
<given-names>Felipe</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>F. D'Oliveira</surname>
<given-names>Flavio A.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Fischer</surname>
<given-names>Horst</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gałkowski</surname>
<given-names>Michał</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1681-3965</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8">
<sup>8</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Glauch</surname>
<given-names>Theo</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1804-4055</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Henkes</surname>
<given-names>Alice</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5260-308X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ho</surname>
<given-names>David</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1592-448X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dias-Júnior</surname>
<given-names>Cléo Q.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4783-4689</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>P. Junior</surname>
<given-names>Amauri C.</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1251-360X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Marshall</surname>
<given-names>Julia</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2648-128X</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff7">
<sup>7</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ort</surname>
<given-names>Linda</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>M. Portella</surname>
<given-names>Ben-Hur</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>T. Machado</surname>
<given-names>Luiz A.</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
</xref>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Physics Institute, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff2">
<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Biogeochemical Signals Department, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff3">
<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Department of Physics, Federal Institute of Pará (IFPA), Belém, PA, Brazil</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff4">
<label>4</label>
<addr-line>National Institute for Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff7">
<label>7</label>
<addr-line>Leipzig Institute for Meteorology, Universität Leipzig, Stephanstraße 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany</addr-line>
</aff>
<aff id="aff8">
<label>8</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>10</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>32</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Noelia R. Benavente et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>The Amazon Basin plays an important role in the global climate and carbon budget, with natural emissions and removals of CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and CH&lt;sub&gt;4 &lt;/sub&gt;prevailing in the wet season. Accurate modeling of the transport of greenhouse gases (GHG) is essential for understanding the contributions of sources, sinks, and atmospheric processes. High-resolution atmospheric models offer a compromise between computational cost and physical realism, capturing mesoscale processes that influence GHG transport in the Amazon. We evaluate the WRF-GHG model (Weather Research and Forecasting Model with GHG module) using CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; measurements from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO) and aircraft observations during the CAFE-Brazil campaign in January 2023. Simulations employed two domains centered at ATTO, with MapBiomas land cover data, region-specific parameters for CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; biogenic emissions and removals, and multiple wetland CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; emission configurations. Comparisons with ATTO indicate that the regionally adapted biogenic flux parameterizations improved the representation of CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and net ecosystem exchange (NEE). For CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt;, CAMS Inversion-optimized flux product best reproduces observed concentrations, while the Kaplan diagnostic model and WetCHARTs inventories overestimate near-surface mole fractions. The model predicts diurnal CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; fluctuations, controlled by boundary-layer dynamics and atmospheric transport, that were not observed at ATTO. Comparisons with CAFE-Brazil aircraft data indicated regional wetland sources and wind-driven transport driving the observed CH&lt;sub&gt;4&lt;/sub&gt; enhancements. These findings underscore the importance of improving the parameterization of biogenic fluxes to enhance the capability of models in complex tropical environments like the Amazon Basin and to accurately describe the complex circulation between rivers, upland areas, and floodplains.</p>
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