GEOS-Chem v8-02-01

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Overview

CHEMISTRY RELEASE -- ABOUT TO BE RELEASED!!

Will contain everything in v8-01-04 plus the following:

  1. Glyoxal chemistry (May Fu) (NOTE: This is an option which is turned off by default)
  2. Updated J(O1D) cross sections (Lin Zhang)
  3. Updated reaction rates (Jingqiu Mao, Dylan Millet, Palmer group @ U. Edinburgh)
  4. HO2 uptake (Lyatt Jaegle)
  5. Updated dust single scattering albedo (Randall Martin)

1-year benchmarks

Run0

Three GEOS-Chem model versions were compared to each other:

Color Quantity Plotted Met Field Type Anthro Emissions Photolysis Chemical Mechanism Annual Mean OH
[105 molec/cm3]
Red v8-01-04 Run1 GEOS-5 4x5
version 5.0.1
w/ "quick fix"
for optical depth

spinup: 2005
run: 2005
GEIA/Piccot
EDGAR emissions
EMEP European emissions
BRAVO Mexican emissions
David Streets 2006 emissions
CAC Canadian emissions
EPA/NEI99 with ICARTT fix
EDGAR ship emissions
ARCTAS ship SO2 emissions
Anthro scale year 2005
"old" jv_spec.dat Mostly unchanged from v5-07-08 except for a few revisions 10.294
Green v8-01-04 Run2 GEOS-5 4x5 version 5.1.0,
"reprocessed" met fields

spinup: 2004
run: 2005
" " " " " " 11.099
Blue v8-02-01 Run0 " " " " "updated" jv_spec.dat "updated" chemical mechanism (cf. J. Mao, D. Millet, T-M. Fu, Palmer Group @ U. Edinburgh) 11.817
Black Observations          

SUMMARY:

  1. v8-01-04 Run2 vs. v8-01-04 Run1 is a clean comparison between the GEOS-5.0.1 and GEOS-5.1.0 met products.
  2. v8-02-01 Run0 vs. v8-01-04 Run2 is a clean validation the new chemistry mechanism and updates that were added into v8-02-01.
  3. All runs used the same:

The output plots for Run0 may be downloaded from:

ftp ftp.as.harvard.edu
cd pub/geos-chem/1yr_benchmarks/v8-02-01/geos5/2005/Run0/output