Benchmark/GEOS-Chem 12.9.0

This page includes information about all benchmark simulations for GEOS-Chem 12.9.0.

GEOS-Chem Classic 1-month benchmark

Benchmark plots

Enable PDF bookmarks¹ in the files linked below to navigate between species. See the Species in GEOS-Chem wiki page for species definitions and details.

Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere Troposphere only
Metrics	OH concentration, MCF lifetime, CH4 lifetime
Budgets	Budgets after operations

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Benchmark assessment form

Description
New features added into GEOS-Chem	Feature Submitted by Updates that WILL AFFECT the full-chemistry simulation Updated halogen chemistry Xuan Wang (Harvard) Improved cloudwater pH Viral Shah (Harvard) Jonathan Moch (Harvard) Update offline lightning data through Dec 2019 Lee Murray (Rochester) Convert GEOS-Chem species database to YAML format, includes: Defining all species properties in the species database, not just advected species Initializing the species database with values read from the YAML file Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Bob Yantosca (GCST) Update GEOS-Chem core to apply masking and scaling to HEMCO inputs Lizzie Lundgren (GCST) Bug fix: Restore missing photolysis reactions from 12.8.0 and add an extra error check Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Bug fix: Remove inefficient code that was slowing down computation of heterogenous chemistry rates Bob Yantosca (GCST) Updates that WILL NOT AFFECT the full-chemistry simulation Corrected issue in GEOS-Chem dry-run where some files were not being properly marked for download Bob Yantosca (GCST) Bug fixes for the ObsPack diagnostic: Change units of ObsPack specific humidity (Q) field to g/kg Restore missing code due to Git merge that caused the OBSPACK MENU of input.geos not to be read Bob Yantosca (GCST) Fixes for reading meteorology fields in HEMCO: Skip reading FLASH_DENS and CONV_DEPTH fields when lightning NOx extension is turned off Change time cycle flag for meteorology fields to use exact date Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Restore missing metadata for satellite timeseries diagnostics Melissa Sulprizio (GCST) Updates that affect GCHP only Fix bug where non-advected species not updated in restart file Sebastian Eastham (MIT)
Version, resolution, met fields used:	GEOS-FP (72L), 4x5, July 2016
1-month benchmark finished on:	Tue Jun 30 04:27:21 EDT 2020
Performance statistics:	Compiled with ifort 17.0.4 Ran on 24 CPUs of holyjacob01.rc.fas.harvard.edu (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 "Haswell" @ 2.50 GHz) Wall time: 08:27:00 CPU time / wall time: 20.8684 % of ideal performance: 86.95% Memory: 13.5412 GB
Git tag	12.9.0-rc.0
Compared to previous benchmark:	12.8.0
This update will impact: (select all that apply with boldface)	Advection, BL Mixing, Convection, Met Fields, Dry Dep, Wet Dep, Stratosphere, Emissions, Photolysis, Chemistry, Other (please specify):
Unit test results may be viewed at:	http://ftp.as.harvard.edu/gcgrid/geos-chem/1mo_benchmarks/GC_12/12.9.0/GCC/Plots/GC_12.9.0_Jun26.results.html
Metrics
Global mean OH from log file (% change):	12.2836928383580 x 105 molec/cm3 (+3.55%)
Methyl chloroform lifetime (% change):	5.1257 years (-1.91%)
Methane lifetime (% change):	8.6311 years (-1.69%)
Overview
Comments on observed differences:	Below we summarize the notable changes caused by specific updates. Updated halogen chemistry Four new species are introduced in this update: sea salt alkalinity (SALAAL, SALCAL) and sea salt chloride (SALACL, SALCCL). This update also includes updated Henry's law constants for several halogen species, update chemical reactions, and updated heterogeneous chemistry as described in Wang et al. (2019). It also includes improved cloudwater pH from Shah et al. (2020). This update causes large differences, most notably in the halogen species, and is responsible for a 3% increase in the global OH concentration. Update offline lightning data through Dec 2019 This change causes differences in lightning NOx emissions due to updating the climatology: ############################################################################### ### Emissions totals for inventory LIGHTNOX ### ### Ref = GC_12.8.0; Dev = GC_12.9.0 ### ############################################################################### Ref Dev Dev - Ref LIGHTNOX NO  : 1.700865 1.828790 0.127925 Tg Convert GEOS-Chem species database to YAML format This update introduces minor differences because all species properties are now defined in the species database, not just advected species. This means, chemical species are now defined with molecular weights and this introduces numerical differences when performing unit conversions to the species concentrations throughout the model. Overall differences attributed to these updates are small. This update changed the global mean OH concentration by -0.05%. Update GEOS-Chem core to apply masking and scaling to HEMCO inputs This updated introduced small changes because of the switch from Hco_GetPtr, which returns REAL*4 values, to Hco_EvalFld, which returns REAL*8 values. The global mean OH concentration changed by 0.01%. Bug fix: Restore missing photolysis reactions from 12.8.0 and add an extra error check This update introduces photolysis reactions that should have been included in 12.7.0 with updated isoprene chemistry from Bates et al. (2019), but were not because of a hardcoded maximum value in the number of photolysis reactions. The largest changes are to the species involved in those photolysis reactions (RIPA, RIPB, RIPC, RIPD, HPALDS1-4, IHN1-4, INPB, INPD, ICPDH, IDHDP, IDHPE, IDCHP, ITHN, ITCN). Bug fix: Remove inefficient code that was slowing down computation of heterogenous chemistry rates This update introduces small changes due to slight differences in molecular weight and Henry's law constants used in the heterogeneous chemistry module. Previously, many of these values were hardcoded, but they are now obtained from the species database for consistency with the rest of the source code. In addition, we have eliminated needless computations that were being done for every grid box but only needed to be done in the troposphere. These updates also vastly improve the wall clock time spent in the heterogeneous chemistry functions as shown below by the results from internal 1-month benchmark simulations (all completed on all 24 CPUs of holyjacob01.rc.fas.harvard.edu; Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v3 "Haswell" @ 2.50 GHz). Total seconds spent in heterogeneous chemistry code: Before halogen chemistry updates 4863 After halogen chemistry updates 26348 After this fix 448
Details
List all SURFACE species, J-Values, and COLUMN AOD values that changed by 10% or more:	Aerosols: NH4 NIT SO4 Complex_SOA AERI BrSALA BrSALC ISALA ISALC NITs SO4s Bromine: Bry BrOx Br Br2 BrCl BrNO2 BrNO3 BrO HOBr HBr Chlorine: Cly ClOx Cl ClO Cl2 Cl2O2 ClOO ClNO2 ClNO3 HOCl HCl OClO Iodine: Iy IxOy I I2 IBr ICl IO IONO IONO2 CH2I2 HI HOI OIO Nitrogen: NOy NOx HNO2 HNO3 HNO4 MPAN NIT NO NO2 NO3 N2O5 MPN PAN PPN NHx NH3 NH4 MENO3 ETNO3 Oxidants: O3 OH NOx Primary_Organics: EOH MOH ISOP MTPA MTPO LIMO TOLU XYLE ROy: H2O2 H HO2 O1D OH RO2 Secondary_Organic_Aerosols: ASOA3 ASOAN ASOG3 INDIOL LVOCOA SOAIE SOAGX Secondary_Organics: ACTA CH2O HPALDs MACR IEPOX MVK ISOPN GLYX MAP RCHO MP Sulfur: SOx DMS SO2 SO4 J-Values: CCl4 CFC11 CFC113 CFC114 CFC115 CFC12 CH2Cl2 CH3CCl3 CH3Cl HCFC123 HCFC141b HCFC142b HCFC22 N2O O2 Column AOD: BCPI OCPI SALA SALC SO4 SOA_from_Aqueous_ISOP
List all 500 hPa species and J-Values that changed by 10% or more :	Aerosols: NH4 NIT BrSALA BrSALC ISALA ISALC NITs SO4s Bromine: Bry BrOx Br Br2 BrCl BrNO2 BrNO3 BrO HOBr HBr Chlorine: Cly ClOx Cl ClO Cl2 Cl2O2 ClOO ClNO2 ClNO3 HOCl HCl OClO Iodine: Iy IxOy I I2 IBr ICl IO IONO IONO2 CH2I2 HI HOI OIO Nitrogen: NOy NOx HNO2 HNO3 HNO4 MPAN NIT NO NO2 NO3 N2O5 MPN PAN NHx NH3 NH4 MENO3 Oxidants: O3 OH NOx Primary_Organics: EOH ISOP MTPA MTPO LIMO ALK4 C2H6 C3H8 TOLU ROy: H2O2 H HO2 O1D OH RO2 Secondary_Organic_Aerosols: ASOA1 ASOA3 ASOG1 ASOG3 SOAGX Secondary_Organics: CH2O HPALDs MACR IEPOX MVK ISOPN GLYX Sulfur: DMS SO2
List all ZONAL MEAN species and J-Values that changed by 10% or more:	Aerosols: NH4 NIT SO4 BrSALA BrSALC ISALA ISALC NITs SO4s Bromine: Bry BrOx Br Br2 BrCl BrNO2 BrNO3 BrO HOBr HBr Chlorine: Cly ClOx Cl ClO Cl2 Cl2O2 ClOO ClNO2 ClNO3 HOCl HCl OClO Iodine: Iy IxOy I I2 IBr ICl IO IONO IONO2 CH2I2 CH2ICl CH2IBr HI HOI OIO Nitrogen: NOx HNO2 HNO3 HNO4 MPAN NIT NO NO2 NO3 N2O5 MPN PAN PPN NHx NH3 NH4 MENO3 Oxidants: O3 OH NOx Primary_Organics: ISOP MTPA MTPO LIMO ALK4 C2H6 C3H8 PRPE TOLU XYLE ROy: H2O2 H HO2 O1D OH RO2 Secondary_Organic_Aerosols: ASOA1 ASOA3 ASOG1 ASOG3 SOAGX Secondary_Organics: ACTA ALD2 CH2O MACR IEPOX MEK MVK ISOPN GLYX HCOOH MAP RCHO MP Sulfur: SOx DMS SO2 SO4
List all EMISSIONS that changed by 10% or more:	Lightning: NO Ship: NO2 NO O3 Total: NO
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GCHP 1-month benchmark

The following sections contain validation plots for GCHP 12.9.0.

Comparison of GCHP versions

This table contains plots comparing GCHP 12.8.0 (Ref) and GCHP 12.9.0 (Dev) for a 1-month simulation.

Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory

Comparison of GCHP and GEOS-Chem Classic

This table contains plots comparing GEOS-Chem Classic 12.9.0 (Ref) against GCHP 12.9.0 (Dev) for a 1-month simulation.

Species Category2	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc	AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH3Br, CH2Br2, CHBr3, HOBr, HBr	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH3CCl3, CHCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, IONO, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	sfc
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--
J-values	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere	--	--
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Biomass Burning, Biogenic, Lightning, Natural, Ocean, Seabirds, Decaying Plants, Ship, Soil, Degassing Volcanoes, Erupting Volcanoes
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere Troposphere only
Budgets	Budgets after operations

GCHP and GEOS-Chem Classic difference of differences

This table contains plots comparing the difference [GCHP 12.9.0 - GCHP 12.8.0] against the difference [GC Classic 12.9.0 - GC Classic 12.8.0], taken from 1-month benchmark simulations.

Category	Plots
	Level Map		Zonal Mean
Oxidants	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Aerosols	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Bromine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Chlorine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Iodine	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Nitrogen	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Primary Organics	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Secondary Organics	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Secondary Organic Aerosols	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
Sulfur	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere
ROy	sfc	500hPa	full column	stratosphere

NOTE: At present, we have only created the diff-of-diffs plots for species concentration. This can be extended to other categories in the future.

GEOS-Chem Classic 1-year benchmark

1-year benchmark overview

In this 1-year benchmark, two GEOS-Chem model versions are compared to each other:

Color	Model Version	Met Type	Year	Updates affecting the benchmark simulation	Annual Mean OH [105 molec/cm3]	O3 STE [Tg a-1]
Black	Observations
Green	12.9.0	GEOS-FP, 72L, 4x5	2016	Updates introduced in 12.9.0: |Updated halogen chemistry Improved cloudwater pH Update offline lightning data through Dec 2019 Convert GEOS-Chem species database to YAML format, includes: Defining all species properties in the species database, not just advected species Initializing the species database with values read from the YAML file Update GEOS-Chem core to apply masking and scaling to HEMCO inputs Bug fix: Restore missing photolysis reactions from 12.8.0 and add an extra error check Bug fix: Remove inefficient code that was slowing down computation of heterogenous chemistry rates	10.8417	599.3101
Red	12.9.0	GEOS-FP, 72L, 4x5	2016	Updates introduced in 12.8.0: Isoprene chemistry Wet deposition parameterization Ozone deposition to the ocean Use online DustDead, MEGAN, SeaSalt, and SoilNOx emissions for benchmark simulations Updates introduced in 12.7.0: Small alkyl nitrate chemistry Methanol as part of standard chemical mechanism Update to Yuan processed MODIS LAI product (covering years 2005-2016) Latitudinally and monthly resolved fixed surface concentrations for long-lived organohalogen species (1750-2014) and methane Fix incorrect uptake coefficient for N2O5 in heterogeneous chemistry	10.6131	607.6070

1-year benchmark plots

These benchmarks plots were made using a combination of routines from GCPy and GAMAP. The 6-panel concentration, difference, and fractional difference plots and tables were created with GCPy, while the model vs observation plots were created with GAMAP because they have not been converted to Python yet.

Category1	Plots					Additional Information
	Level Map		Zonal Mean		Emissions
Oxidants O3, CO, OH, NOx	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Aerosols DST1, DST2, DST3, DST4, NH4, NIT, SO4, BCPI, BCPO, OCPI, OCPO, AERI, BrSALA, BrSALC, ISALA, ISALC, NITs, SALA, SALC, SO4s, Simple_SOA, Complex_SOA	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	AOD Jan Apr Jul Oct Aerosol profiles Aerosol burdens Global mean AOD
Bromine Bry, BrOx, Br, Br2, BrCl, BrNO2, BrNO3, BrO, CH4Br, CH2Br2, CH2Br2, CH3Br3, HOBr, HBr	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Chlorine Cly, ClOx, Cl, ClO, Cl2, Cl2O2, ClOO, ClNO2, ClNO3, CCl4, CFCs, CH3Cl, CH2Cl2, CH4CCl3, HOCl, HCl, Halons, HCFCs, OClO	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	-
Iodine Iy, IxOy, I, I2, IBr, ICl, IO, INO2, IONO2, CH3I, CH2I2, CH2ICl, CH2IBr, HI, HOI, OIO	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Nitrogen NOy, NOx, HNO2, HNO3, HNO4, MPAN, NIT, NO, NO2, NO3, N2O5, MPN, PAN, PPN, N2O, NHx, NH3, NH4, MENO3, ETNO3, IPRNO3, NPRNO3	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Primary Organics EOH, MOH, ISOP, MTPA, MTPO, LIMO, ALK4, BENZ, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, PRPE, TOLU, XYLE	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Secondary Organics ACTA, ALD2, CH2O, HPALDs, MACR, IEPOX, ACET, MEK, MVK, ISOPN, GLYX, HCOOH, MAP, RCHO, MP	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Secondary Organic Aerosols TSOA0, TSOA1, TSOA2, TSOA3, ASOA1, ASOA2, ASOA3, ASOAN, TSOG0, TSOG1, TSOG2, TSOG3, ASOG1, ASOG2, ASOG3, INDIOL, LVOCOA, SOAIE, SOAGX, SOAP, SOAS	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
Sulfur SOx, DMS, OCS, SO2, SO4	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct
ROy H2O2, H, H2, H2O, HO2, O1D, OH, RO2	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	-
J-values	Surface Jan Apr Jul Oct	500 hPa Jan Apr Jul Oct	Full column Jan Apr Jul Oct	Stratosphere Jan Apr Jul Oct	-
Emissions by HEMCO category	Total: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Aircraft: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Anthropogenic: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Biomass burning: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Biogenic: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Lightning: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Natural: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Ocean: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Plant decay:Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Sea birds: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Ship: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Soil: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Volcano degassing: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Volcano erupting: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
Emission totals	Tables by species Tables by inventory
Global mass	Entire atmosphere: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct Troposphere only: Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct
Mean OH	Monthly and annual mean
Model vs Observations	Aerosols: Seasonal plots, Scatter plots Aircraft: C2H6, C3H8, CO, H2O2, HNO3, NO, O3, PAN CO: Profiles, Latitudal distribution, Ships, Seasonal plots (Surface, MOZAIC 4 levels) O3: Profiles (GMI, MOZAIC), Seasonal plots (Surface, GMI 3 levels, GMI 4 levels, MOZAIC 3 levels, MOZAIC 4 levels) PAN: Profiles PM2.5 with simple SOA: Maps, Scatter plots PM2.5 with complex SOA: Maps, Scatter plots

¹Benchmark category definitions: benchmark_categories.yml
²Lumped species definitions: lumped_species.yml

NOTES:

1. Category and lumped species definitions are simple to adjust.
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