GEOS-Chem model development priorities

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On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list was compiled by the user Working Groups at the last International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC8) in May 2017 and will be continuously updated based on code readiness and input from the Working Groups and the Steering Committee.

We also invite you to view our GEOS-Chem Support Team project management board on Trello.com, which shows the current GCST workflow.

List of priorities as of May 2017

The items listed below are in different stages of readiness and will be included in future versions of the model.

Slated for v11-03

The following updates are now slated for inclusion into GEOS-Chem v11-03:

Feature Submitted by Type Status
Transport updates
Common set of tracers in GEOS-Chem and GEOS Transport WG
GCST
Benchmarking
  • Ready to be added
Chemistry updates
Extend UCX into the mesosphere Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Science
  • Ready to be added
Script for checking N, C, etc. balance in chemistry mechanism Barron Henderson (EPA) Software
Emissions updates
OMI-based volcanic emissions 2005-2012 Cui Ge (U. Iowa)
Jun Wang (U. Iowa)
Science
  • Delivered to GCST (Nov 2017)
  • Need to implement a fix to handle missing data for the last 3 months of 2012. Deferred to v11-03.
Anthropogenic PM2.5 dust source Sajeev Philip (Dalhousie) Science
  • Deferred to v11-03. Need to fix an "under-the-hood" issue in HEMCO that causes 1200 Tg of dust to be emitted by this update.
FINN biomass burning emissions for 2014-2016 Barron Henderson (US EPA) Science
  • Deferred to v11-03, pending receipt of corrected data files
EPA NEI2011 Version EK Zitely Tzompa-Sosa (CSU)
Emily Fischer (CSU)
Science
  • Deferred to v11-03; need extra time for validation
Grid-independent emissions, including:
  • Lightning NOx emissions (3-hourly)
  • Dust emissions (hourly)
  • Biogenic and sea salt emissions (hourly)
Randall Martin (Dalhousie)
Lee Murray (Rochester)
David Ridley (MIT)
Jintai Lin (PKU)
Science
  • Mostly complete, but deferred to v11-03. Need to download data from developers.
EPA-derived BC/OA emissions over US (1990-2012) David Ridley (MIT)
Chi Li (Dalhousie)
Science
  • Need to coordinate between Ridley and Li versions
Ocean ammonia emission inventory Fabien Paulot (NOAA/GFDL) Science
  • Data files delivered to GCST (Jan 2016)
  • Needs to be implemented via HEMCO
A snow NOx source from deep snowpack Maria Zatko (UW)
Becky Alexander (UW)
Science
  • Delivered to GCST (Nov 2017)
  • Implemented in v9-01-01
  • Needs to be added as a HEMCO extension
MASAGE inventory in HEMCO as default Fabien Paulot (NOAA/GFDL)
Amos Tai (CUHK)
Science


Non-agricultural NH3 for use with MASAGE Amos Tai (CUHK) Science
Radon emission update Bo Zhang (NIA/NASA Langley) Science
  • Delivered to GCST (Nov 2017)
  • Implementation pending paper submission
GFAS biomass burning emissions Mat Evans (York) Science
Deposition/surface updates
Wet scavenging in mixed-phase clouds Bo Zhang (NIA/NASA Langley) Science
  • Delivered to GCST (Nov 2017)
  • Only applied/tested for Pb
  • Implementation pending paper submission
Harmonizing Henry's Law coefficients across wet and dry deposition GCST Science
  • Work not started yet. Will need input from the community.
Sedimentation of stratospheric aerosols Sebastian Eastham (Harvard) Science
Aerosol updates
Sea salt aerosol alkalinity Qianjie Chen (UW)
Becky Alexander (UW)
Xuan Wang (Harvard)
Science
  • UW version delivered to GCST (Nov 2017)
VBS SOA option Rokjin Park (SNU) Science
Specialty simulation updates
Oxidant fields from v10 for 2006-2012
  • 3D chemical source for CO2, CO
  • OH for tagged CO & CH4
Dylan Jones (UofT) Science
  • Will make data files available on ftp site
Year 2010 ocean Hg boundary conditions from ocean model Hannah Horowitz (Harvard) Science
Historical products emissions from Zhang et al. (2016), should become default Colin Thackray (Harvard) Science
AMAP/UNEP 2035 for Hg simulation Helene Angot (MIT) Science
Africa nested-grid for GEOS-FP and MERRA-2 Eloise Marais (U. Birmingham) Science
  • Delivered to GCST (Dec 2017)
West Africa nested-grid for GEOS-FP Mat Evans (York)
Eleanor Morris (York)
Science
Tagged sulfate simulation Becky Alexander (UW) Science
Arsenic simulation Shiliang Wu (MT) Science
Structural updates
Updated flux diagnostics Chris Holmes (Florida State)
GCST
Structural/
Benchmarking
  • Deferred to v11-03
Additional modifications for FlexChem, including:
  • Rebuild the pre-built chemistry mechanisms (Standard, Tropchem, SOA-SVPOA) with Kppa
  • Add capability for custom chemistry mechanism by building KPP on-the-fly in GEOS-Chem
GCST Structural
  • Work not started yet
Benchmark of stratospheric simulation Dylan Jones (U. Toronto) Benchmarking
  • 1-yr benchmarks for GEOS-Chem v11-01d and later include comparisons with OSIRIS O3
  • Waiting on OSIRIS NO2 data
  • Waiting on comparisons with ACE-FTS data
Add total column O3 to benchmarks Chris Holmes (FSU)
GCST
Benchmarking
  • Deferred until v11-03
Uniformity of units GCST Structural
  • Phase 2 (unit uniformity throughout chemistry) to be implemented after Flexchem
  • Phase 3 (unit uniformity in some specialty simulations) will be implemented in pieces with input from 3rd party developers
  • Phase 4 (removal of area and area-dependent State_Met variables) will be ongoing
ObsPack diagnostic as netCDF replacement for planeflight_mod.F Andy Jacobson (NOAA/ESRL) Structural
  • Delivered to GCST (May 2017)
NetCDF Output Phase 3b: Updates to eliminate differences between single and multi-segmented GEOS-Chem runs GCST
Christoph Keller
Bug fix/Structural
Expansion of model capabilities
FlexGrid: Use HEMCO to read met fields and enable nested simulations over any custom domains Jiawei Zhuang (Harvard)
Jintai Lin (PKU)
Structural
  • Delivered to GCST (Oct 2016)
  • Deferred to v11-03
Update ISORROPIA from v2.0 to v2.2, in order to remove persistent noise in output Seb Eastham (Harvard) Science
  • Delivered to GCST (May 2017)
Archival of roughness length for temperature z0T GCST Met processing
  • Work not started yet

Not prioritized for v11-03

Item Author(s) Type Status
Sea salt emission from sea ice Jiayue Huang (UW) Science
Re-evaluation of SST dependence of sea salt emissions Jiayue Huang (UW) Science
Update MODIS LAI fields through 2015 Barron Henderson (UF) Science
Lightning NOx chemistry parameterization Alicia Gressent (MIT) Science

Almost there (< 6 months)

Item Author(s) Type Status
GEOS resolution & subgrid convection Karen Yu (Harvard) Science
  • To be installed by Bob Yantosca (Harvard), tested by Tailong He (Toronto)
Updated chlorine chemistry Xuan Wang (Harvard) Science
  • Defer until the paper is submitted
ND49 timeseries diagnostic for correcting ozone from the height of the lowest model level to 10m Katie Travis (MIT) Structural
  • Defer until the paper is submitted
Aromatics and dicarbonyl chemistry William Porter (MIT)
Tzung-May Fu (PKU)
Science
Diagnostic for species lifetime GCST Science
Document chemical mechanism in KPP file Mat Evans (York) Structural
Carbon bottom up fluxes: anthro, ocean, land Kevin Bowman (JPL) Science
GISS-GC (ICECAP/GCAP2) in standard model + benchmark Lee Murray (Rochester)
Eric Leibensperger (SUNY Plattsburgh)
Science
CESM-GC offline coupling in standard model + benchmark Rokjin Park (SNU)
Daniel Rothenberg (MIT)
Science
CESM-GC GCHP Daniel Rothenberg (MIT) Science
Injection height for fire emissions Juliet Zhu (CSU)
Emily Fischer (CSU)
Science
Diurnal variability for NH3 Henze group Science
OH + NO2 rate update Barron Henderson (EPA) Science
N2O5 hydrolysis updates Viral Shah (UW) Science
Land cover module: Harmonized biosphere-atmosphere exchange and implementing CLM or manual land cover change experiments Jeff Geddes (BU) Science
H2 chemistry in UCX Chris Holmes (FSU) Science
Uptake of HNO3 onto coarse-mode sea salt Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke) Science
Photolysis of NITs Prasad Kasibhatla (Duke) Science
PCB simulation Colin Thackray (Harvard)
Carey Friedman (formerly MIT)
Helen Amos (formerly Harvard)
Science


New EDGAR sectoral inventory for Hg (1970-2012) Amanda Giang (MIT) Science
Wet deposition parameterizations: pH dependency, Henry's law coefficients, etc. Sarah Safieddine (MIT)
GCST
Science
Archive GISS met fields from RCP scenarios for community Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Online O3-LAI coupling in GEOS-Chem Amos Tai (CUHK) Science
Clean up SOA diagnostics GCST Structural
Calculation consistency throughout code: surface area, HGF (via species database) GCST Structural

Over the horizon (6-12 months)

Item Author(s) Type Status
MEIC emissions over China (2000-2015) Lu Shen (Harvard)
Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
Science
  • Implementation delayed until MEIC paper is published
GISS-GC GCHP Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Dynamic fire modeling/prediction Shiliang Wu (MNT) Science
Interannually varying ocean model BCs for Hg from ocean model Colin Thackray (Harvard) Science
PAH & PFCA simulations Peter Ivatt (York)
Mat Evans (York)
Noelle Selin (MIT)
Colin Thackray (Harvard)
Science
CH4 in full chemistry simulation Seb Eastham (Harvard) Science
Standard future land use maps (PFT, LAI) for RCP/CMIP6 simulations Colette Heald (MIT)
Loretta Mickley (Harvard)
Science
Archive GISS met fields from CMIP6 scenarios for community Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Updates to cold-temperature deposition Lyatt Jaegle (UW) Science
Simple parameterization for CO2-O3 dependence of stomatal resistance Amos Tai (CUHK) Science
NH3 emissions over China Lin Zhang (PKU) Science
Using GEOS-Chem within GEOS-5 Loretta Mickley (Harvard) Science
Carbon cycle outputs in xCO2, xCH4 as a diagnostic Beata Bukosa (Wollongong)
Dylan Jones (UofT)
Science
Seasonal EMEP emissions back to 1980 Mat Evans (York) Science
Updates to NO2 dry deposition Brian Boys (Dalhousie) Science
APM update and integration with most recent GEOS-Chem version Gan Luo (SUNY Albany) Structural
Cosmogenic tracer production Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Explore resolution-consistent dust emissions
  • Make high-res concentrations or mass fluxes available offline, implement in met field processing
David Ridley (MIT)
GCST
Nested Model WG
Science
Dust emissions at nested-grid resolutions Yuxuan Wang (U. Houston)
Jun Wang (U. Iowa)
Science
  • Check for overlap with resolution-consistent dust emissions above
Update SO2 scavenging in convective updrafts for consistency Duncan Fairlie (NASA/LARC) Science

Longer term (12-24 months)

Item Author(s) Type Status
GCHP stretched grid Jiawei Zhuang (Harvard) Science
1/8 degree nested-grid simulations with GEOS-FP Nested Model WG Science
  • Wait for more interest
Embedding GEOS-Chem into CESM Jean-Francois Lamarque (NCAR) Science
Adjoint of carbon cycle simulation in GCHP Kevin Bowman (JPL) Science
Isoprene chemistry v2 (new Caltech update) Kelvin Bates (Caltech) Science
Contemporary land cover: developing historical and updated GEOS-Chem land cover maps based on satellite remote sensing Jeff Geddes (BU) Science
Farquhar-Ball-Barry model to calculate stomatal resistance Amos Tai (CUHK)
Jeff Geddes (BU)
Science
Impacts of chemistry on ecosystem/carbon cycle Kevin Bowman (JPL)
Anthony Bloom (JPL)
Science
Improved lightning emission scheme Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Resolution-independent lightning NOx Lee Murray (Rochester) Science
Bidirectional NH3 emissions Juliet Zhu (CSU) Science
Country-based weekday/weekend variability for EDGAR 4.2 Lee Murray (Rochester)
Christoph Keller (Harvard)
Science
Update keytone photolysis Jared Brewer (CSU)
Emily Fischer (CSU)
Science
Small alkyl nitrates Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) Science
YIBS-GC chemistry-biosphere-fire coupling Loretta Mickley (Harvard)
Xu Yue (IAP)
Science
Nitrogen-LAI coupling Lin Zhang (PKU)
Amos Tai (CUHK)
Science
Implementing humidity/VPD dependence of dry deposition Jennifer Murphy (U. Toronto) Science
SO2 wet scavenging Duncan Fairlie (NASA Langley) Science
Heterogeneous sulfate production Lin Zhang (PKU)
Becky Alexander (UW)
Yuxuan Wang (U. Houston)
Science
MOSAIC implementation Sebastian Eastham (Harvard) Science
Particle size climatology Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany) Science
Sea salt/dust size distribution David Ridley (MIT)
Colette Heald (MIT)
Science
Updates to GTMM Rebecca Stern (Harvard) Science
Tracer transport ocean Chris Holmes (FSU) Science
Include Hg in full chemistry simulation Noelle Selin (MIT) Science
Goddard seasonal weather prediction in GCHP Kevin Bowman (JPL) Science
Climate index diagnostics (drought, etc.) Chemistry-ecosystems-climate WG Structural
Joint CO/CO2/CH4 simulation Nicholas Deutscher (U. Wollongong) Science
Carbon coupling: oceans and terrestrial models Chris Holmes (FSU) Science
  • Ocim-pure physical transport, ECCO-Darwin ocean biogeochemistry
DMS oxidation scheme updating Qianjie Chen (UW)
Chemistry WG
Science
Limiting NH3 uptake due to OA Rachel Silvern (Harvard) Science

--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 20:44, 12 May 2017 (UTC)