Hg and POPs Working Group

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All users interested in the GEOS-Chem mercury and persistent organic pollutant (POPs) simulations are encouraged to subscribe to the Hg and POPs email list (click on the link in the contact information section below).

Information on existing projects and future developments in aerosols will be posted here. We encourage user groups to keep their information up-to-date.

Contact information

Hg and POPs Working Group Co-Chairs Lyatt Jaeglé and Noelle Selin
Hg and POPs Working Group email list geos-chem-hg-pop@seas.harvard.edu
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Current GEOS-Chem Hg and POPs Projects (please add yours!)

User Group Description Contact Person Date Added
UW N. American nested grid Hg simulation development Yanxu Zhang 05 Jul 2010
UW Hg long-range transport and deposition over Alaska Lyatt Jaeglé 05 Jul 2010
MIT Development of a PAH and PCB simulation and assessment of climate change impacts on pathways to the Arctic Noelle Selin and Carey Friedman 05 Jul 2010
MIT Analysis of Wet Deposition and RGM to constrain Hg-Br chemistry Noelle Selin and Amanda Giang 05 Jul 2010
MIT Inverse modeling to constrain Hg sources Noelle Selin and Shaojie Song 14 Mar 2011
Harvard Hg continental-scale source-receptor relationships Bess Sturges Corbitt 02 Aug 2010
Harvard Hg coupled atmosphere-terrestrial exchange and future climate change simulations Bess Sturges Corbitt 02 Aug 2010
Harvard Historical Hg simulation with fully coupled atm-soil-ocean model (box model and GEOS-Chem). Helen Amos 09 Mar 2011
Harvard Hg cycling in the Arctic atmosphere-ocean-sea ice-snow Jenny Fisher 04 May 2011
Harvard Long-term (30-year) simulation of Arctic Hg Jenny Fisher 04 May 2011
Harvard Comparison of Hg simulations to observations of fluxes across the air-sea interface in the West Atlantic Ocean Anne L. Soerensen 10 May 2011
Harvard Updating the surface ocean representation with lateral flows, river input and methyl mercury species Anne L. Soerensen 16 Nov 2011
Harvard Fate of Hg released from products Hannah Horowitz 22 Sep 2011
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Recent GEOS-Chem updates related to Hg and POPs

The following development items have recently been added to GEOS-Chem:

Version Released Update Author(s)
v9-01-03 TBD Hg(II) gas-particle partitioning. Helen Amos (Harvard)
v9-01-03 TBD Nested grid simulation over North America Yanxu Zhang (UW)
v9-01-02 Nov 2011 Hg anthropogenic emissions options for the year 2006 or 2050 following SRES scenarios A1B, A2, B1, and B2 from Streets et al. 2009. Bess Sturges Corbitt (Harvard)
v9-01-02 Nov 2011 Bug fixes impacting the Hg simulation: Chris Holmes (UC Irvine)
Team Hg
GEOS-Chem Support Team

--Bob Y. 12:01, 28 November 2011 (EST)

On-going Hg and POPs Working Group Developments

Update Contact Status
Development of GEOS-5 0.5x0.667 nested grid Hg simulation over the N. American domain. Yanxu Zhang (U. Washington)
Implement NEI 2005 Hg emission inventory over US Yanxu Zhang (U. Washington)
Option to use GEOS-Chem Br/BrO fields from Justin Parrella. Yanxu Zhang (U. Washington)
Justin Parella (Harvard)
Implement improved bromine explosion emission and chemistry in the Arctic Jenny Fisher (Harvard)
Implement improved snowpack reduction and re-emission in the Arctic Jenny Fisher (Harvard)
Implement Hg source to Arctic Ocean from riverine inputs Jenny Fisher (Harvard)

--Bob Y. 14:43, 25 October 2011 (EDT)

Issues / Topics for Discussion

More discussion of the Hg simulation (code, issues, diagnostics) can be found on the Mercury page.