GEOS-Chem model development priorities

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On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list is continuously updated based on code readiness and input from the Working Groups and the Steering Committee. For history of past releases see the GEOS-Chem Versions wiki page.

Merged and awaiting release

See the links below for items merged and awaiting release.

Mergeable at any time Version in development
GEOS-Chem no-diff-to-benchmark GEOS-Chem 14.7.0

Feature integration in progress

Features listed in this table are actively being integrated into GEOS-Chem by the GEOS-Chem Support Team. In addition, we continuously implement structural updates in the model to maintain and develop coupling with other models including GEOS, CESM, and the model adjoint.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Ease of implementation Notes and References
Retire CH4, CO2, tagCO simulations in favor of the carbon simulation Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) Carbon gases Simple
PSO4AQ and PH2SO4 fix in the KPP fullchem mechanism Fabien Solmon (ETH) Chemistry Simple
Archived TCR-2 OH fields for carbon simulations Kazu Miyazaki (JPL) Carbon gases
Input data 		Simple
  • This will be the default OH, but users will have the option of selecting other OH fields
  • geos-chem issue #2537
Improve fine dust simulation Dandan Zhang (WashU) Aerosols Medium

Prioritized and in the queue

Features listed in this table are prioritized for integration into GEOS-Chem in the near future.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Ease of implementation Delivery status Notes and References
Correct the issue that injection height has been artificially decreased by HEMCO Lixu Jin (Montana) Emissions Simple Waiting for high resolution files
Strat-adjusted RF in GCC and GCHP Connor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Radiation Simple Delivered
Load-Balancing Solutions for Chemistry module Daisy Wang (WashU)
Jordan Sun (WashU) 		GCHP
Performance 		Simple Delivered Sep 2025
Methanediol chemistry Laura Yang (Harvard) Chemistry Simple Not delivered
Heterogeneous sulfate chemistry in aerosol water Katie Travis (NASA Langley) Chemistry Simple Delivered
Jul 2025
Add 0.5x0.5 CEDS 2024 Gridded Data Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Emissions Simple Delivered May 2025

Ready to go in

Features listed in this table are ready to go in but have either not been delivered or are not yet prioritized for integration into GEOS-Chem.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Delivery status Notes and Refereneces
Binary Activity Thermodynamic (BAT) model for non-ideal mixing of water and organics in organic aerosol Camilo Serrano (McGill)
Andreas Zuend (McGill) 		Aerosols Not delivered
Update UCX to include gravitational settling of aerosol species beyond just BCPI Conor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Aerosols Not delivered
Seasalt aerosol from sea ice leads (2002-2011) Hannah Horrowitz (UIUC) Aerosols Not delivered
  • Offline and online, ready to go in HEMCO (optional in addition to existing seasalt emissions)
Gridded U.S. Anthropogenic Methane Greenhouse Gas Inventory (v3) Bram Maasakkers (SRON) Carbon
Emissions 		Delivered


Chemistry of levoglucosan fire tracer May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry Not delivered
Faster KPP Rosenbrock integration method ("RODAS3.1") Mike Long (NASA GMAO) Chemistry Waiting for paper submission
Updated aromatic oxidation Stephen MacFarlane (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (JCU) 		Chemistry Not delivered
Dry deposition to F90 to improve readability Chris Holmes (FSU) Dry Deposition Not delivered
Ecophysiology module in GEOS-Chem for biosphere-atmosphere exchange Joey Lam (CUHK)
Amos Tai (CUHK) 		Dry deposition Delivered
Feb 2021
FRP-based fire emissions for eastern US at 0.2 (2019-2020) Chris Holmes (FSU) Emissions Not delivered
Bottom-up China agricultural NH3 emissions @ 1 km resolution Amos Tai (CUHK) Emissions Not delivered
T-dependent anthropogenic VOCs May Fu (SUSTech) Emissions Not delivered
  • W. Wu et al. (2024)
  • Developed parameterizations for the temperature dependence of anthropogenic VOC emissions in China from 3 sectors (transportation, solvent use, and non-solvent industrial activities). Code is being made more general and formulated as a function within HEMCO that will also allow user-input T-dependence parameters.
New source functions for transport tracers beryllium-7 and beryllium-10 Minjie Zheng (ETH) Emissions Delivered
June 2024
LPJ land cover (global), fire (W US), dust emissions (SW N America), 1700-2100 Yang Li (Baylor U)
Loretta Mickley (Harvard) 		Emissions Delivered
  • Data involves many files- need to think about temporal frequency
BCC-GC online Lin Zhang (PKU) External Model Not delivered
GC-YIBS with online fire emissions Xu Yue (NUIST)
Hong Liao (NUIST) 		External Model Not delivered
GISS-GC online Lee Murray (Rochester) External Model Not delivered

Almost there (< 6 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team within the next 6 months.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
Fixes to stratospheric aerosol settling Connor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Aerosols
Revised complex SOA scheme Qi Chen (PKU) Aerosols +
Chemistry
  • paper being written up for ACP
Cl-SOA Xuan Wang (CityU HK) Aerosols +
Chemistry
Ethane in carbon simulation Yuzhong Zhang (Westlake) Carbon sim
Organic nitrogen aerosol and its atmospheric deposition May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry +
Deposition 		Not delivered
Cl2 prodcution from Fe aerosol Qianjie Chen (HK Poly)
Becky Alexander (UW) 		Chemistry
Re-tuned Rosenbrock solver coefficients for computational efficiency Mike Long (GMAO Chemistry
  • Speeds up the integration of the fullchem mechanism by > 25%
DMS chemistry in v14 Linia Tashmim (UCR)
Will Porter (UCR) 		Chemistry
NO2+OH+H2O kinetics Mat Evans (York) Chemistry
HFO and CF3CHO Beth Killen (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (JCU) 		Chemistry
Use LSODE or Backward Euler integrator in KPP for faster kinetics Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Chemistry
  • LSODE appears to be non-thread-safe for OpenMP parallelization due to legacy code, and thus fails when used in GEOS-Chem Classic. Bob Y. is investigating if this can be fixed, or if we should proceed to using Backwards Euler.
Load balancing in chemistry solver (GCHP) Zhouran Sun (WashU) Chemistry +
Performance
Active chemistry in mesosphere for both GCHP and GCClassic Helena McDonald (MIT)
Sebastian Eastham (ICL) 		Chemistry
Implement isotope simulation for CH4 in the carbon simulation Lee Murray (Rochester) Chemistry
  • Will have to change negative emissions from soil to a first-order loss process
Documentation for adding additional aerosol species Connor Barker (UCL) Documentation
Column diagnostics Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
Viral Shah (GMAO) 		Diagnostics
TOMAS rate diagnostics -- improve performance Betty Croft (WashU/Dal) Diagnostics +
Performance
Archive gamma values from heterogeneous chemistry Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Diagnostics
RRTMG Documentation GCST Documentation
Canopy Physics Model Sam Silva (MIT) Dry Deposition
Dry deposition diagnostics by land cover Holly Nowell (FSU)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Dry Deposition
Dry deposition process diagnostics Holly Nowell (FSU)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Dry Deposition
Continental bromine emissions Xuan Wang (CityU HK) Emissions
Biomass burning for TOMAS Nicole June (CSU) Emissions +
Microphysics
Historic biomass burning (1750-2010) Pengfei Liu (Georgia Tech) Emissions
New prior CO2 biospheric fluxes from CMS-FLUX and GMAO Kevin Bowman (JPL)
Lesley Ott (GMAO) 		Emissions
  • GMAO can provide high-resolution fluxes (as high as 12 km)
Snowpack Br2 emission Chris Holmes (FSU) Emissions
EDGAR v8.1_toxHg emissions for 1970-2022 Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions
MLC-CHEM coupled with GEOS-Chem Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota) External Model
Improve pressure handling in GCHP advection Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
Seb Eastham (ICL) 		GCHP
Enable online derivation of winds from mass fluxes in GCHP Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
Add error trap for duplicate scale factors in HEMCO Bob Yantosca (Harvard) HEMCO
Capture all trop and PBL height changes in budget diagnostics Chris Holmes (FSU)
Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) 		Diagnostics
Integration testing: Add stretched grid Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add GCHP mass flux run Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Reinstate TOMAS40 Betty Croft (Dalhousie/WashU) Quality Assurance
Continue cleanup of C-preprocessor switches Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Structural
Updates to Luo deposition scheme Gan Luo (Albany) Wet Deposition
  • New version, keep as switch (not default)

Over the horizon (6-12 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team in the 6-12 months timeframe.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
ML algorithms for bulk aerosol Arshad Nair (Albany)
Fangqun Yu (Albany) 		Aerosols
Sulfate dust chemistry Xinyi Dong (NJU) Chemistry
27 fluorinated GHGs (F-gases) Yali Li, Lei Zhu (SUSTech) Chemistry
Glyoxal chemistry updates Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry
Heterogeneous sulfate chemistry Katie Travis (NASA) Chemistry
H2 as an active species Seb Eastham (ICL) Chemistry
HCN, acetonitrile as fire tracers Kevin Bates (CU Boulder) Chemistry
Resolution-independent BVOC emission Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech) Emissions
Mesospheric source of CO Dylan Jones (UofT)
Pam Wales (NASA GSFC) 		Emissions
Drought-stress algorithm Wei Li (Houston) Emissions
Physically-based resolution correction for BVOC emissions using MEGAN May Fu (SUSTech) Emissions
Canadian forest fire prediction system (Canada government forecast model) Robin Stevens (Montreal) Emissions
Cooking emissions (not biofuel) Kelvin Bates (CU Boulder) Emissions
State-specific annual emissions scaling factors (US) (1990-2021) Ishir Dutta (MIT) Emissions
Hybrid MPI-OpenMP in GCHP Seb Eastham (MIT)
Killian Murphy (York) 		GCHP
Update to MAPL3 in GCHP Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
Assessment/improvement of OpenMP performance in GC-Classic and HEMCO standalone Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Performance
Photophysical oxidation of aldehydes Paulo Sebastianelli (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (JCU) 		Chemistry
DMS updates Will Porter (UCR) Chemistry
Furans emission and chemistry Lixu Jin (Montana)
Lu Hu (Montana) 		Chemistry +
Emissions
VCP emissions Kevin Bates (CU Boulder) Emissions
Bidirectional land-atmosphere exchange for Hg Yuying Cui (MIT/Tsinghua) Hg simulation
OH covariances for inversions Elise Penn (Harvard) Inversions
CESM2-GC offline Seb Eastham (ICL)
Lee Murray (Rochester) 		Met fields
Re-binning of off-line sea salt and dust for TOMAS Betty Croft (Dalhousie) Microphysics
TOMAS nucleation updates Sam O'Donnell (CSU) Microphysics
Stratospheric aerosol APM Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany) Microphysics
Transition from MERRA-2 to GEOS-IT for benchmarking Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Automate integration testing on AWS Yidan Tang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add across end of year run GCST Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add GEOS-IT Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Separate mixing, emissions, and drydep Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Structural
Intel IFX compiler Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Structural
CMake option to only build libraries but not executable, also passing C-preprocessor statements to turn off code Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
Lee Murray (Rochester) 		Structural
Enable HEMCO to read and write REAL8 data so that GC-Classic achieves bit-for-bit reproducibility Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Structural
Limit allocation of State_Met to what is needed per simulation Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) Structural
Using 3-D precipitation fluxes to calculate precipitation formation and re-evaporation in scavenging (to be consistent with GEOS/GOCART & ground precipitation) Gan Luo (Albany)
Hongyu Liu (NIA/LaRC)
Bo Zhang (NIA/LaRC) 		Wet deposition

Longer term (12-24 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team in the 12-24 months timeframe.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
Modal aerosol model (MAM7) in GCHP Shreya Sharma (MIT) Aerosols
Isoprene SOA from acid-catalyzed in-cloud reactions Xuan Wang (CityU HK) Aerosols
TOMAS size fraction information for emissions Win Trivitayanurak (Chulalongkorn) Aerosols
HONO heterogeneous chemistry Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry
Online OCIM ocean biogeochemistry Lee Murray (Rochester)
Hannah Horowitz (UIUC)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Chemistry
Perchlorate chemistry Yuk Chun Chan (UW) Chemistry
Iodine chemistry Becky Alexander (UW)
Xuan Wang (CUHK) 		Chemistry
Non-stomatal dry deposition (2-layer canopy model) Michael Vermeuel (Purdue) Dry Deposition
Humidity dependence of non-stomatal dry deposition Lin Zhang (PKU) Dry Deposition
Revised aerodynamic conductance in urban canopy Wai-Chi Cheng (SUSTech) Dry Deposition
Global MEIC inventory Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua) Emissions
Soil HONO emission Tao Wang (HK Poly U) Emissions
Biogeochemically based soil NOx emission Cheng Gong (MPIB) Emissions
Continental chloride particle emissions (salty dust, road salt) Jessica Haskins (Utah) Emissions
Multivolatility emission inventory to address gaps in EDGAR/HTAP etc. Ruochong (Tshingua) Emissions
Lightning NOx production rates Bex Horner (UCL) Emissions
GFED5 biomass burning Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions
Ocean Hg surface concentrations for 2010-2020 from multi-model ensemble Eric Roy (MIT)
Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) 		Hg simulation
Soil Hg emissions 2010-2020 Eric Roy (MIT)
Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) 		Hg simulation
Air-sea exchange parameterization Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
Soil Hg emissions parameterization Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Hg simulation
Sea salt uptake of GOM Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
Photoreduction rate constant Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
New observations (2010-2020) in standardized Hg benchmark for intercomparison Eric Roy (MIT)/Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Hg simulation
Hg simulation in GCHP Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
OCIM - biogeochemical model - (C/P/N/Fe - no Hg yet) (MATLAB) Hannah Horowitz (UIUC) Hg simulation
Possibly updating Hg oxidation chemistry based on Utah field campaigns Jessica Haskins (Utah) Hg simulation
New halogen/aerosol fields (surface area / AOD) from 10-year 14.4 benchmark simulation available online Viral Shah (NASA GMAO); Eric Roy (MIT); Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Input data
Extend IMI to CO2 (ICI) Hannah Nesser (JPL) Inversions
Global emission inventory of metals Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech); He Zhong Tian (Peking Normal U) Metals simulation
Investigate and improve performance of aerosol chemistry Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Performance
PAH - update from version 11 Lexia Cicone (MIT) POPs simulation
Species database more accessible; doc updates; TOL discussion Jessica Haskins (Utah) Structural
Stretched-grid plotting in GCPy Killian Murphy (York) Tools
Model inter-comparison of transport (GEOS, GCHP, GCClassic) Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard), Viral Shah (NASA), Dandan Zhang (Harvard) Transport
Comparing mass fluxes in GCHP vs. traditional lat/lon wind Yuanjian Zhang (WashU), Seb Eastham (ICL) Transport
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