DSMACC chemical box model

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This page describes the DSMACC chemical box model (U. Leeds).

Overview

Brief description

The Dynamically Simple Model of Atmospheric Chemical Complexity (DSMACC) is designed to be a simple box model which can easily change its chemical scheme and can be used both for free running and constrained simulations. It is written in FORTRAN and uses the KPP chemical pre-processor, the TUV photolysis scheme and can use the Master Chemical Mechanism or other chemical mechanisms.

DSMACC is based out of the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science at the School of Earth and Environment of the University of Leeds.

DSMACC is a useful and flexible tool. We are using it to test new GEOS-Chem chemical mechanisms.

Instructions for Use

To use the DSMACC model with GEOS-Chem with the GEOS-Chem chemical mechanisms follow the instructions below after downloading the DSMACC code and KPP utilities from the DSMACC website:

  1. In the boxmodel directory type "make clean" to clear the directory.
  2. In the same directory type "Geos2kppbox_parser.pl globchem.dat" to generate the three kpp-compatible globchem.eqn, globchem.spc and globchem.def files. Ensure that the number of reaction lines in globchem.dat matches the number of lines read in with the perl script (in the section entitled "Evaluate Product Lines").
  3. Generate the kpp *.f90 files by typing "kpp model.kpp". You may obtain error messages about the incompatibility of the variable type with reaction rates of the order 10

Authors and collaborators

Source code and data

The code is freely available although support is limited!

References

  1. Emmerson, K.M., M. J. Evans, Comparison of tropospheric gas-phase chemistry schemes for use within global models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 1831-1845, 2009. PDF

Known issues

None at this time.