CO2 simulation

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1. Simulations using KPP-built mechanisms (carbon, fullchem, Hg)
2. Aerosol-only simulation
3. CH4 simulation
4. CO2 simulation
5. Metals simulation
6. POPs simulation
7. Tagged CO simulation
8. Tagged O3 simulation
9. TransportTracers simulation

This page contains information about the carbon dioxide (CO₂) simulation in GEOS-Chem.

Overview

The original GEOS-Chem CO₂ simulation was developed by Parv Suntharalingam (Suntharalingam et al., 2003; 2004), now at the University of East Anglia. A major update to the CO₂ simulation was completed in 2010 by Ray Nassar and Dylan B.A. Jones of the University of Toronto (Nassar et al., 2010). The latest update to the CO₂ simulation was developed by Ray Nassar (now at Environment Canada) and appears in GEOS-Chem v10-01, which was released on 2015 May 1.

CO₂ simulation user groups

See this post on the Carbon Cycle Working Group wiki page.

References

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16. Sausen, R. and U. Schumann, Estimates of the Climate Response to Aircraft CO₂ and NO_x Emissions Scenarios, Climate Change, 44: 27-58, 2000.
17. Suntharalingam, P., C. M. Spivakovsky, J. A. Logan, and M. B. McElroy, Estimating the distribution of terrestrial CO₂ sources and sinks from atmospheric measurements: Sensitivity to configuration of the observation network, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D15), 4452, doi:10.1029/2002JD002207, 2003.
18. Suntharalingam, P., D. J. Jacob, P. I. Palmer, J. A. Logan, R. M. Yantosca, Y. Xiao, M. J. Evans, D. G. Streets, S. L. Vay, and G. W. Sachse, Improved quantification of Chinese carbon fluxes using CO₂/CO correlations in Asian outflow, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D18S18, doi:10.1029/2003JD004362, 2004.
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