GEOS-Chem overview

GEOS-Chem Main Page

Introduction

• GEOS-Chem welcome letter
• Overview of GEOS-Chem and its user community
• Narrative description of GEOS-Chem
• GEOS-Chem newsletters
• GEOS-Chem versions
• GEOS-Chem contributing guidelines
• GEOS-Chem support guidelines
• GEOS-Chem public license and list of developers
• GEOS-Chem publications

GEOS-Chem user community

• GEOS-Chem Steering Committee
• GEOS-Chem Support Team
• GEOS-Chem People & Projects
• GEOS-Chem Publications
• GEOS-Chem Working Groups
  • Aerosols Working Group
  • Carbon Cycle Working Group
  • Chemistry Working Group
  • Chemistry-Climate Working Group
  • Emissions Working Group
  • Hg and POPs Working Group
  • Inverse Modeling and Data Assimilation Working Group
  • Transport Working Group
  • Software Engineering Working Group
  • Stratospheric Working Group
  • Surface-Atmosphere Exchange Working Group
• GEOS-Chem Nested Model
• GEOS-Chem High Performance Model
• Machine learning related to GEOS-Chem

Documentation

General documentation

• User manuals for GEOS-Chem and related software
• GEOS-Chem Adjoint

GEOS-Chem Guides

We have created the following Guides to assist you in finding information on several important GEOS-Chem topics:

• Guide to compilers for GEOS-Chem
• Guide to GEOS-Chem simulations
• Guide to using Git with GEOS-Chem

The following Guides have been migrated to ReadTheDocs:

• Guide to GEOS-Chem History diagnostics
• Guide to HEMCO emissions diagnostics
• Planeflight diagnostic
• ObsPack diagnostic
• Prepare COARDS-compliant files
• Parallelize GEOS-Chem and HEMCO source code
• Speed up a slow simulation
• Understand what error messages mean
• Update chemical mechanisms with KPP'
• View GEOS-Chem species properties
• Work with netCDF files

Further reading

Please see the following resources for more information about GEOS-Chem:

Grids

• FlexGrid: Defining custom horizontal and vertical grids
• GEOS-Chem horizontal grids
• GEOS-Chem vertical grids
• GEOS-Chem nested grid simulations

Meteorology fields

• Overview of GMAO met data products
• GMAO near-real time data products
• GMAO reanalysis products

Species

• GEOS-Chem species properties

Model components

• Emissions
• Chemistry
  • FlexChem
  • Photolysis
• Advection
• Boundary layer mixing
• Cloud convection
• Dry deposition
  • Leaf area indices in GEOS-Chem
  • Olson land map
• Wet deposition

Aerosols

• Carbonaceous aerosols
• Mineral dust aerosols
• Sea salt aerosols
• Sulfate aerosols
• Aerosol-only simulation
• Aerosol thermodynamical equilibrium
• Aerosol Microphysics
  • APM
  • TOMAS

Validation

• Benchmarking

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