DSMACC chemical box model
This page describes the DSMACC chemical box model (U. Leeds).
Contents
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 a useful and flexible tool. We are using it to test new GEOS-Chem chemical mechanisms.
New information on DSMACC can be found here. The code is freely available although support is limited!
Instructions for Use
Instructions for DSMACC are in the README, but are summarized below.
- Download the model (wget https://github.com/barronh/DSMACC/archive/master.zip)
- Unzip the archive (e.g., unzip master.zip)
- Navigate a terminal into DSMACC-master
- Run the test case (make check)
The test case includes a version 8 GEOS-Chem simulation that you can modify for your purposes. This test case is just a toy and is not meant for analysis.
--barronh 10:04, 25 October 2013 (EDT)
Authors and collaborators
- Mat Evans (U. York)
- Barron Henderson (University of Florida)
- Jingqiu Mao (Princeton/NOAA GFDL)
Source code and data
DSMACC code developed for GEOS-Chem can be found here:
References
- 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.
