GEOS-Chem 13.0.0

This page includes information about all benchmark simulations for GEOS-Chem 13.0.0.

GEOS-Chem Classic 1-month benchmark

Benchmark plots

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Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere Troposphere only
Metrics	OH concentration, MCF lifetime, CH4 lifetime
Budgets	Budgets after operations

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Benchmark assessment form

Description
New features added into GEOS-Chem	Feature Submitted by Updates that WILL AFFECT the full-chemistry simulation CEDS_GBD-MAPS emission inventory (1970 - 2017) Erin McDuffie (Dalhousie) Retire carbon-based units for VOCs Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Removal of HEMCO code from within the non-local PBL mixing modules Bob Yantosca (GCST) Heterogeneous chem fixes, performance improvements, and clarification Chris Holmes (FSU) Fix handling of NOx coefficients in ucx_mod.F90 Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Prevent divide-by-zero errors in UCX routine UCX_NOX Bob Yantosca (GCST) Updates that will NOT affect full-chemistry simulations Use GEOS-FP 5.22 data for Jan - May 2020 and store GEOS-FP 5.25 for April - May 2020 as option Jun Meng (GCST) Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Update QFED emissions through July 2020 Christoph Keller (NASA GMAO) ODIAC fossil fuel emissions for CO2 simulations Jenny Fisher (UOW) Yi Cao (UOW) Global Hg emissions from Streets et al. (2019) (as option) Colin Thackray (Harvard) Global Hg emissions from EDGARv4.tox2 (as option) Amanda Giang (UBC) Global Inventory of Methane Emissions from Fuel Exploitation Tia Scarpelli (Harvard) Retire tropchem mechanism; implement new tropchem simulation using Standard mechanism below the tropopause and archived P/L rates above Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) RRTMG fixes and updates Fix bug with stratospheric aerosol Shift RRTMG call time sequence to begin first timestep Fix bugs in GEOS-Chem 12 implementation of netCDF diagnostics Complete remaining implementation of netCDF diagnostics to match binary Fix seg fault when building RRTMG with Intel compilers Allow turning RRTMG off when using RRTMG-enabled executable Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Add global mean OH and CH4 lifetime diagnostics Bob Yantosca (GCST) Retire the GNU Make build system in both GEOS-Chem Classic and GCHP and replace with CMake Liam Bindle (WashU) GCST Retire the GEOS-Chem Unit Tester repository and move GEOS-Chem run directory creation to the GEOS-Chem source code repository Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Updates to GEOS-Chem and HEMCO interface for compatibility with CESM Haipeng Lin (Harvard) Thibaud Fritz (MIT) Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Dynamically allocate diagnostic arrays based on HISTORY.rc content to minimize memory footprint Bob Yantosca (GCST) Fixes for typos: Incorrect density value used to calculate cloud ice volume Fix stratospheric loss in CH4 simulation using 12.9.0 Update format statements in fast_jx_mod.F90 for 3 integers Fix typo in mercury_mod.F for saving EmisHg0land Fix for reading archived OH and Cl in CH4 simulations Fix species name typo in Init_HetInfo subroutine GCST Features only affecting GCHP: Retire the existing GCHP repository and replace with a new wrapper repository that uses ESMF as an external library and integrates GEOS-Chem and NASA/GMAO GEOS-ESM git repositories as git submodules Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Separate HEMCO from GEOS-Chem to use as an ESMF gridded component in GCHP Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Enable a stretched grid capability in GCHP to run global simulations at regional high resolution Liam Bindle (WashU) Update MAPL (v2.2.7) and GMAO library dependencies Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Enable GCHP to be compiled with RRTMG Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Lizzie Lundgren (GCST)
Version, resolution, met fields used:	MERRA-2 (72L), 4x5, July 2019
1-month benchmark finished on:	Mon Nov 2 03:24:27 EST 2020
Performance statistics:	Compiled with ifort 18.0.5 Ran on 24 CPUs of holy7c20304.rc.fas.harvard.edu (Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8268 CPU @ 2.90GHz) Wall time: 06:54:01 CPU time / wall time: 19.4750 % of ideal performance: 81.15% Memory: 13.6795 GB
Git tag	13.0.0-rc.0
Compared to previous benchmark:	12.9.0
This update will impact: (select all that apply with boldface)	Advection, BL Mixing, Convection, Met Fields, Dry Dep, Wet Dep, Stratosphere, Emissions, Photolysis, Chemistry, Other (please specify):
Metrics
Global mean OH from log file (% change):	11.22769648880 x 105 molec/cm3 (-8.60)
Methyl chloroform lifetime (% change):	5.5460 years (+8.20%)
Methane lifetime (% change):	9.3297 years (+8.09%)
Overview
Comments on observed differences:	Below we summarize the notable changes caused by specific updates.
Details
List all SURFACE species, J-Values, and COLUMN AOD values that changed by 10% or more:
List all 500 hPa species and J-Values that changed by 10% or more :
List all ZONAL MEAN species and J-Values that changed by 10% or more:
List all EMISSIONS that changed by 10% or more:
Approval
Requires further investigation:
Approved by:
Date of approval:

GCHP 1-month benchmark

The following sections contain validation plots for GCHP 13.0.0.

Comparison of GCHP versions

This table contains plots comparing GCHP 13.0.0 (Ref) and GCHP 12.9.0 (Dev) for a 1-month simulation.

Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere Troposphere only
Budgets	Budgets after operations

Comparison of GCHP and GEOS-Chem Classic

This table contains plots comparing GEOS-Chem Classic 13.0.0 (Ref) against GCHP 13.0.0 (Dev) for a 1-month simulation.

Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere Troposphere only
Budgets	Budgets after operations

GCHP and GEOS-Chem Classic difference of differences

This table contains plots comparing the difference [GCHP 13.0.0 - GCHP 12.9.0] against the difference [GC Classic 13.0.0 - GC Classic 12.9.0], taken from 1-month benchmark simulations.

Category	Plots
	Level Map		Zonal Mean
Oxidants	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Aerosols	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Bromine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Chlorine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Iodine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Nitrogen	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Primary Organics	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Secondary Organics	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Secondary Organic Aerosols	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Sulfur	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
ROy	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere

NOTE: At present, we have only created the diff-of-diffs plots for species concentration. This can be extended to other categories in the future.