GEOS-Chem v9-01-03

Overview

BETA RELEASE -- TBD

GEOS-Chem v9-01-03 shall contain the following major updates and improvements. (NOTE: The order of inclusion is subject to change):

Feature	Type	Submitted by	Benchmark (1 Month)	Status
Updating the standard chemistry mechanism w/ rxns from JPL 10-6	Science	Barron Henderson (EPA) Mat Evans (Leeds) Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL) Eloise Marais (Harvard)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion
Updated acetone chemistry (ocean source & sink)	Science	Emily Fischer (Harvard)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion
Retirement of obsolete GEIA biogenic emissions	Structural	Emily Fischer (Harvard) Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota)	TBD	Will be done concurrently w/ the updated acetone chemistry
OVOC dry deposition updates	Science	Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL)	TBD	TBD
SOA simulation with semi-volatile POA	Science	Havala Pye (EPA) GEOS-Chem Support Team	TBD	Undergoing final testing & debugging
POPs simulation	Science	Carey Friedman (MIT) Noelle Selin (MIT)	TBD	TBD
Updates to Dicarbonyls simulation (maybe merging w/ Caltech isoprene scheme)	Science	May Fu (Peking U.)	TBD	TBD
Tropopsheric bromine chemistry mechanism	Science	Justin Parrella (Harvard)	TBD	TBD
Historical emission inventories of SO2, NOx, BC, and POA	Science	Eric Leibensperger (MIT)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion
Methyl peroxy nitrate (MPN) chemistry	Science	Ellie Browne (UC Berkeley)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion
Improved sea salt emission & deposition	Science	Lyatt Jaeglé (U. Washington)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion
Acid uptake on dust aerosols	Science	T. Duncan Fairlie (NASA/LARC)	TBD	Delivered to GCST; awaiting inclusion

--Bob Y. 14:25, 8 September 2011 (EDT)

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