GEOS-Chem v11-01

Overview

History

The table below shows the previous, current, and successive versions of GEOS-Chem:

Previous version	This version	Next version
GEOS-Chem v10-01	GEOS-Chem v11-01	TBD
PROVISIONAL RELEASE 01 May 2015	TBD	TBD
View v10-01 benchmark history	View v11-01 benchmark history	TBD

--Melissa Sulprizio 10:30, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

What's new in this version

NOTE: v11-01a, v11-02b, etc. denote 1-month benchmark simulations, which are designed to evaluate GEOS-Chem's performance at intermediate stages of development.

v11-01a

Please see the Benchmark approval form for GEOS-Chem v11-01a for complete information about the validation of GEOS-Chem v10-01a.

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Status
Correctly incorporate moisture into air quantity calculations and tracer unit conversions	Science & Bug fix	Lizzie Lundgren (GEOS-Chem Support Team)	TBD

--Bob Y. 13:33, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

v11-01b

NOTE: This version will require a 1-month benchmark simulation and a 1-year benchmark simulation.

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Status
Fix to direct/diffuse radiation	Science & Bug fix	Katie Travis	TBD
Fix for NO3 + ISOP product (currently not a tracer; no deposition)	Science	Katie Travis	" "
Save curtains out along flight track	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
OVOC dry deposition as described in Nguyen et al. [2014]	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
Various dry deposition updates	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
Lightning updates, including: Adjustment to scale factors Updated geographical bounds for lightning yield	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
Add scaling options for NEI2008/NEI2011: Scale non-EGU NO emissions down by a factor of 2 Scale NEI NH3 to MASAGE Use NEI OC and BC	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
Scale down soil NOx by 50% on the basis of comparison to OMI	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "
Update OA molecular weight	Science	SEAC4RS Team	" "

--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

v11-01c

NOTE: This version will require a 1-month benchmark simulation and 1-year benchmark simulation.

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Status
Update DMS climatology to Lana	Science	Tom Breider (Harvard)	TBD
Impaction scavenging for hydrophobic BC	Science	Qiaoqiao Wang (Max Planck Institute)	" "
Homogeneous IN removal	Science	Qiaoqiao Wang (Max Planck Institute)	" "
Online emission of marine primary organic aerosol (POA)	Science	Brett Gantt (NCSU) Matthew Johnson (NASA Ames)	" "

--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

v11-01d

NOTE: This version will require a 1-month benchmark simulation only.

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Status
Updates to PAH code	Science	Carey Friedman (MIT)	TBD
Remove in-plume reduction of Hg	Science	Yanxu Zhang (Harvard)	" "

--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 18:23, 16 June 2015 (UTC)

In the pipeline

The following features are slated for inclusion in GEOS-Chem v11-01:

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Status
TBD

--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 19:48, 19 May 2015 (UTC)

New data directories

The following new data directories have been added for GEOS-Chem v11-01. You will have to download the directories relevant to your simulation.

• TBD

Validation

In this section we provide information about the benchmarks and tests that we have done to validate GEOS-Chem v11-01.

1-month and 1-year benchmarks

For complete information about the benchmark simulations used to validate GEOS-Chem v11-01, please see our GEOS-Chem v11-01 benchmark history wiki page.

--Melissa Sulprizio 10:30, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Unit tests for GEOS-Chem v11-01

We performed a full set of unit tests on GEOS-Chem before submitting each 1-month benchmark. Click on the links below to see the results from each set of unit tests:

Unit test	Date	Notes
TBD	TBD

--Melissa Sulprizio 10:30, 5 May 2015 (EDT)

Previous issues now resolved in GEOS-Chem v11-01

The following bugs and/or technical issues have now been resolved in GEOS-Chem v11-01.

• None yet

Outstanding issues not yet resolved in GEOS-Chem v11-01

The following issues have not yet been resolved in GEOS-Chem v11-01. Some of these issues represent questions of open research rather than bugs in the source code.

• None yet