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On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list is continuously updated based on code readiness and input from the [https://geos-chem.seas.harvard.edu/geos-working-groups Working Groups] and the [https://geos-chem.seas.harvard.edu/geos-steering-cmte Steering Committee]. For history of past releases see the [[GEOS-Chem_versions|GEOS-Chem Versions wiki page]].
On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list is continuously updated based on code readiness and input from the [https://geos-chem.seas.harvard.edu/geos-working-groups Working Groups] and the [https://geos-chem.seas.harvard.edu/geos-steering-cmte Steering Committee]. For history of past releases see the [[GEOS-Chem_versions|'''GEOS-Chem Versions wiki page''']].


== Merged and awaiting release ==
== Merged and awaiting release ==
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|align="center"|'''[[GEOS-Chem no-diff-to-benchmark]]'''
|align="center"|'''[[GEOS-Chem 14.4.0]]'''
|align="center"|'''[[GEOS-Chem 14.6.0]]'''


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|Extend GFED4 emissions through 2023
|New version of CEDS at 0.1 deg
|Dandan Zhang (WashU)
|Emissions
|Emissions
|Sarah Hancock (Harvard)<br>Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
|Simple
|Simple
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2282 geos-chem PR #2282]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2171 geos-chem PR #2171]


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|[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/1288 New soil NOx parameterization]
|Use USTAR read from GEOS instead of calculating from U10M and V10M
|Yi Wang (U. Iowa)<br>Jun Wang (U. Iowa)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|Emissions
|Emissions
|Simple
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/HEMCO/pull/279 HEMCO PR #279]
*NOTE: WashU will recompute mass tuning factors for each met field & resolution (GCClassic)
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|Carbon simulation fixes in GCClassic and GCHP
|Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)<br>Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Carbon simulation
|Medium
|Medium
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/1288 geos-chem issue #1288]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/GCHP/issues/440 GCHP issue #440]
*Incorporates new met field TSOIL1
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2463 geos-chem issue #2463]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2510 geos-chem PR #2510]
 
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|Investigate potential performance gains of replacing the KPP Rosenbrock solver with the LSODE solver
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Chemistry
|Medium
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2482 geos-chem PR #2482]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2483 geos-chem PR #2483]
 
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|Fix obspack - not working in 14.4.0
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Diagnostics
|Medium
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2328 geos-chem issue #2328]
 
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|Make GC-Classic bit-for-bit reproducible upon restart<br>(part 1 of 2)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GC-Classic
|Medium
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2521 geos-chem PR #2521]
 
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|Capture all trop and PBL height changes in budget diagnostics
|Chris Holmes (FSU)<br>Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Diagnostics
|Medium
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2103 geos-chem PR 2103]
 
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|Derive convective precipitation flux if using FP/IT generated with Grell-Freitas
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)<br>Viral Shah (GMAO)<br>Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Convection
|Medium
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2469 geos-chem Issue #2469]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2523 geos-chem PR #2523]
 
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|GCHP mass flux fixes
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|GCHP
|Simple
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/GCHP/pull/456 GCHP PR 456]
 
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|HEMCO log print updates
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|ESMs
|Medium
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/HEMCO/pull/296 HEMCO PR 296]
 
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|Fix yaml reader bug with certain compilers
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Build
|Simple
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2486 geos-chem PR 2486]


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|ALK4 & R4N2 chemistry
|Retire CH4, CO2, tagCO simulations in favor of carbon simulation
|Jared Brewer (UMN)
|Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
|Chemistry
|Carbon gases
|TBD
|Simple
|Not delivered
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/1625 geos-chem issue #1625]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2387 geos-chem issue #2387]
*[https://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/files/acmg/files/brewer2022.pdf Brewer, J.F. et al., J. Geophys. Res., 2023.]


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|Mass flux regridding fix in MAPL
|Correct the issue that injection height has been artificially decreased by HEMCO
|Tom Clune (GMAO)<br>Seb Eastham (MIT)
|Lixu Jun (Montana)
|GCHP input regridding
|Emissions
|Medium
|Simple
|Delivered<br>June 2024
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2330 geos-chem issue #2330]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2358 geos-chem PR #2358]
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|Capability to run GCClassic at 0.125x0.15625 resolution
|Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)<br>Xiaolin Wang (Harvard)
|Nested grid
|Simple
|Delivered
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/GCHP/issues/377 GCHP Issue #377]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/1980 geos-chem PR #1980]
*'''Currently on hold, as the submitted update results in zero diff'''
*[https://github.com/geoschem/HEMCO/pull/290 HEMCO PR #290]


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|New version of CEDS at 0.1 deg
|Strat-adjusted RF in GCC and GCHP
|Dandan Zhang (WashU)
|Connor Barker (UCL)<br>Eloise Marais (UCL)
|Emissions
|Radiation
|Simple
|Simple
|Delivered
|Delivered
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/1745 geos-chem issue #1745]
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2525 geos-chem PR #2525]
*'''Currently on hold while an issue with seasonality in the new CEDS data is being investigated by the authors.'''


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|Remove differences in GC-Classic due to HEMCO reading REAL8 restart as REAL4
|Archived TCR-2 OH fields for carbon simulations
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Kazu Miyazaki (JPL)<br>Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
|GC-Classic
|Input data
|Medium
|Simple
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|Data delivered<br>Oct 2024
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/HEMCO/issues/18 hemco issue #18]
*This will be the default OH, but users will have the option of selecting other OH fields
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2537 geos-chem issue #2537]


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|Capture all trop and PBL height changes in budget diagnostics
|Dust non-sphericity impacts on optical properties
|Chris Holmes (FSU)<br>Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Inderjeet Singh (WashU)
|Diagnostics
|Aerosols
|Medium
|Medium
|Delivered
|Not yet delivered
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/2103 geos-chem PR 2103]


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!width="100px"|Model scope
!width="100px"|Model scope
!width="100px"|Delivery status
!width="100px"|Delivery status
!width="300px"|Notes and References
!width="300px"|Notes and Refereneces
 
 
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|Binary Activity Thermodynamic (BAT) model for non-ideal mixing of water and organics in organic aerosol
|Camilo Serrano (McGill)<br>Andreas Zuend (McGill)
|Aerosols
|Not delivered
|
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2392 geos-chem issue #2392]
 
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|Update UCX to include gravitational settling of aerosol species beyond just BCPI
|Conor Barker (UCL)<br>Eloise Marais (UCL)
|Aerosols
|Not delivered
|
 
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|Seasalt aerosol from sea ice leads (2002-2011)
|Hannah Horrowitz (UIUC)
|Aerosols
|Not delivered
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*Offline and online, ready to go in HEMCO (optional in addition to existing seasalt emissions)


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|KORUS-AQ emissions for East Asia (as an option)
|Global organic N dep from various emissions; nitrate aromatics updates
|Katie Travis (NASA)
|May Fu (SUSTech)
|Emissions
|Chemistry +<br>Deposition
|Simple
|Not delivered
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|Geologic emission of ethane and propane
|Dry deposition to F90 to improve readability
|Matthew Rowlinson and Mat Evans(York)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Emissions
|Dry Deposition
|Delivered<br>Jan 2023
|Not delivered
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*Global source from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0073-0 with spatial distribution from https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1-2019
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2389 geos-chem issue #2389]


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|[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/629 Ecophysiology module in GEOS-Chem for biosphere-atmosphere exchange]
|Ecophysiology module in GEOS-Chem for biosphere-atmosphere exchange
|Joey Lam(CUHK)<br>Amos Tai (CUHK)
|Joey Lam (CUHK)<br>Amos Tai (CUHK)
|Science
|Dry deposition
|Delivered<br>Feb 2021
|Delivered<br>Feb 2021
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|LPJ land cover (global), fire (W US), dust emissions (SW N America), 1700-2100
|FRP-based fire emissions for eastern US at 0.2 (2019-2020)
|Yang Li (Baylor University)<br>Loretta Mickley (Harvard)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Emissions
|Emissions
|Delivered<br>Jul 2021
|Not delivered
|
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*Data involves many files- need to think about temporal frequency
*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2388 geos-chem issue #2388]


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|[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/1867 Online H2 chemistry]
|China agriculture NH3 emissions
|Maria Paula Pérez-Peña (UNSW)<br>Jenny Fisher (UOW)<br>Dylan Millet (UMN)
|Amos Tai (CUHK)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
|Delivered<br>June 2023
|Not delivered
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*[https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/12367/2022/acp-22-12367-2022.html Pérez-Peña, M.P. et al., ACP, 2022.]
*Implemented in v12.5, needs to be brought up to current version


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|DMS Chemistry
|T-dependent anthropogenic VOCs
|Linia Tashmim (UC Riverside)<br>William Porter (UC Riverside)
|May Fu (SUSTech)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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*Option. Requires processing existing anthropogenic VOC emissions to generate offline emissions to read in. Parameterised for China.
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|New source functions for transport tracers beryllium-7 and beryllium-10
|Minjie Zheng (ETH)
|Emissions
|Delivered<br>June 2024
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*Available at https://zenodo.org/records/8372652


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|Organic acids (RCOOH)
|LPJ land cover (global), fire (W US), dust emissions (SW N America), 1700-2100
|Katie Travis (NASA)
|Yang Li (Baylor U)<br>Loretta Mickley (Harvard)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
|Not delivered
|Delivered
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*Data involves many files- need to think about temporal frequency


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|Improve carbon & nitrogen conservation in reactions
|Australian Hg emissions (2000-2019)
|Kelvin Bates (Harvard)
|Stephen MacFarlane (Wollongong)<br>Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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*[https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/em/d2em00019a MacFarlane et al. (2024)]
*Includes emissions from black and brown coal power plants, various metal production/processing sources (Aluminium, gold, copper, lead, etc), waste products, cement production, oil refining and petroleum, chlor alkali plants, and cremation


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|Blowing snow sea salt in TOMAS
|Hg geogenic emissions (volcanic, rock weathering)
|Betty Croft (Dalhousie)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Aerosols
|Emissions
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
|
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2361 geos-chem #2361]
*[https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-65/ Dastoor et al. (2024)]


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|[https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/EM/D2EM00019A Australian anthropogenic Hg emissions]
|Hg biomass burning - FINN2.5 & GFED4
|Stephen MacFarlane (UOW)<br>Jenny Fisher (UOW)<br> Hannah Horowitz (U. Illinois)<br>Viral Shah (Harvard)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Hg simulation
|Emissions
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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*[https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/2361 geos-chem #2361]
*[https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2024-65/ Dastoor et al. (2024)]


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|WRF-GC Hg simulation
|BCC-GC online
|Xiaotian Xu (Nanjing U.)<br>Yanxu Zhang (Nanjing U.)
|Lin Zhang (PKU)
|Hg simulation<br>WRF-GC
|External Model
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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|Updated HgII gas-partical partitioning
|GC-YIBS with online fire emissions
|Kaiyun Liu (Tsinghua U.)<br>Qingru Wu (Tsinghua U.)<br>Shuxiao Wang (Tsinghua U.)
|Xu Yue (NUIST)<br>Hong Liao (NUIST)
|Hg simulation
|External Model
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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*Should be option, not default


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|Dry deposition to F90 (readability)
|GISS-GC offline (GCAP)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Dry deposition
|GCAP
|Not delivered
|Not delivered
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|PPN+hv, PPN+OH
|Fixes to stratospheric aerosol settling
|Robert Ryan (UCL)
|Connor Barker (UCL)<br>Eloise Marais (UCL)
|Aerosols
|
 
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|DMS chemistry in v14
|Linia Tashmim (UCR)<br>Will Porter (UCR)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|KPP standalone + 3D Interface
|Obin Sturm (USC)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|NO2+OH+H2O kinetics
|Mat Evans (York)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|LSODES solver in KPP for faster kinetics
|Haipeng Lin (Harvard)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|Load balancing in chemistry solver (GCHP)
|Zhouran Sun (WashU)
|Chemistry +<br>Performance
|
 
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|Active chemistry in mesosphere for both GCHP and GCClassic
|Helena McDonald (MIT)<br>Sebastian Eastham (ICL)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|Updated aromatic oxidation
|Stephen MacFarlane (Wollongong)<br>Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
|Chemistry
|
 
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|MCO3 uptake by cloud forming MP; leading to lower PAN
|Laura Yang (Harvard)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|MBO
|Implement isotope simulation for CH4 in the carbon simulation
|Michael Vermeuel (UMN)
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
|
*Will have to change negative emissions from soil to a first-order loss process
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|Documentation for adding additional aerosol species
|Connor Barker (UCL)
|Documentation
|
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|Column diagnostics
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)<br>Viral Shah (GMAO)
|Diagnostics
|
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|Initial conditions for CH4 correcting background and stratospheric biases
|TOMAS rate diagnostics -- improve performance
|Todd Mooring (Harvard)
|Betty Croft (WashU/Dal)
|Methane simulation
|Diagnostics +<br>Performance
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|Migrating simple SOA formation from carbon_mod.F90 into the KPP "full-chemistry" mechanism
|Archive gamma values from heterogeneous chemistry
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Aerosols<br>Structural
|Diagnostics
|
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*Ongoing


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|Re-binning of off-line sea salt and dust for use in TOMAS
|RRTMG Documentation
|Betty Croft (Dalhousie)
|GCST
|Aerosols
|Documentation
|
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|Adaption of TOMAS' in-cloud aqueous sulfate production for KPP versus sulfate_mod.F90
|Canopy Physics Model
|Betty Croft (Dalhousie)
|Sam Silva (MIT)
|Aerosols
|Dry Deposition
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*Available at https://zenodo.org/records/3614062#.XzvrH5NKjOR (GEOS-Chem 12.3.0)


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|ML algorithms for bulk aerosols
|Dry deposition diagnostics by land cover
|Arshad Nair (SUNY Albany)<br>Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany)
|Holly Nowell (FSU)<br>Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Aerosols
|Dry Deposition
|
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|PM2.5 and PM10 calculations: aerodynamic vs geometric diameters
|Dry deposition process diagnostics
|Shixian Zhai (Harvard)
|Holly Nowell (FSU)<br>Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Aerosols
|Dry Deposition
|
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|Updates to Hodzic SOA scheme
|Biomass burning for TOMAS
|Jared Brewer (Harvard)
|Nicole June (CSU)
|Aerosols
|Emissions +<br>Microphysics
|
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|Automated reduction in isoprene scheme
|Historic biomass burning (1750-2010)
|Dan Westervelt (Lamont-Doherty)
|Pengfei Liu (Georgia Tech)
|Aerosols
|Emissions
|
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|Brown carbon chemsitry
|Rice methane emissions
|Jingqiu Mao (U. Alaska)<br>Xuan Wang (CUHK)
|Zichong Cheng (Harvard)
|Aerosols
|Emissions+<br>Carbon simulation
|
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|GEOS resolution and subgrid convection - Part 2 RAS parameter tuning
|Updated bottom-up global CH4 oil, gas, and coal emissions (GFEI v3)
|Tailong He (Toronto)<br>Dylan Jones (Toronto)<br>Andrea Molod (NASA GMAO)
|Tia Scarpelli (Carbon Mapper)<br>Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
|Convection
|Emissions
|
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|High-res top-down TROPOMI-derived seasonal mean NOx emissions for China
|New prior CO2 biospheric fluxes from CMS-FLUX and GMAO
|Jintai Lin (PKU)
|Kevin Bowman (JPL)<br>Lesley Ott (GMAO)
|Emissions
|Emissions
|
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*Horizontal resolution: 5km, temporal resolution: JJA mean
*GMAO can provide high-resolution fluxes (as high as 12 km)
*monthly data will be available at a later stage; please contact us


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|Updated biomass burning emission factors and species
|Snowpack Br2 emission
|Tess Carter (MIT)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Emissions
|Emissions
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|Updated offline sea salt emissions
|EDGAR v8.1_toxHg emissions for 1970-2022
|Hongjian Weng (PKU) <br> Jintai Lin (PKU)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Emissions
|Emissions
|
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|[https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/2569/2020/ Canopy Physics Model]
|Improve pressure handling in GCHP advection
|Sam Silva (MIT)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)<br>Seb Eastham (ICL)
|Emissions &<br>Science
|GCHP
|
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*DOI: [https://zenodo.org/record/3614062#.XzvrH5NKjOR 10.5281/zenodo.3614062]
*Needs to be updated to a more recent GEOS-Chem version


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|Assessment/improvement of OpenMP performance in GC-Classic and HEMCO standalone
|Add error trap for duplicate scale factors in HEMCO
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Model performance
|HEMCO
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*Ongoing (will be done as time allows)


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|Assess memory leak in GCHP
|Integration testing: Add stretched grid
|Killian Murphy (York)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Model performance
|Quality Assurance
|
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*NOTE: Most memory leaks in GCHP have been fixed by [https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/pull/1353 geoschem/geos-chem PR #1353]. Will wait until MAPL3 to further assess.


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|Hybrid MPI-OpenMP in GCHP
|Integration testing: Add GCHP mass flux run
|Seb Eastham (MIT)<br>Killian Murphy (York)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Model performance
|Quality Assurance
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|Improve pressure handling in GCHP advection
|Integration testing: Reinstate TOMAS40
|Seb Eastham (MIT)<br>Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|Betty Croft (Dalhousie/WashU)
|GCHP
|Quality Assurance
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|Use ExtData2G as default GCHP input module
|Continue cleanup of C-preprocessor switches
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GCHP
|Structural
|Will replace ExtData.rc with yaml file
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|Updates to Luo deposition scheme
|Gan Luo (Albany)
|Wet Deposition
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*New version, keep as switch (not default)
 
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|Testing the use of a new scavenging parameterization developed by Luo and Yu for cold cloud with Pb-210 aerosol tracer
|Gan Luo (Albany)<br>Fangqun Yu (Albany)
|Wet Deposition
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|Snow / Icy Bromine
|ML algorithms for bulk aerosol
|Becky Alexander (UW)<br>William Swanson (U. Alaska)<br>Shuting Zhai (UW)
|Arshad Nair (Albany)<br>Fangqun Yu (Albany)
|Aerosols
|
 
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|Heterogeneous sulfate chemistry
|Katie Travis (NASA)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
|
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|Monoterpene oxidation scheme
|H2 as an active species
|Jessica Haskins (MIT)
|Seb Eastham (ICL)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Fire related VOCs including furans
|HCN, acetonitrile as fire tracers
|Lu Hu (UMT)<br>Lixu Jin (UMT)
|Kevin Bates (CU Boulder)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Extension of UCX into the mesosphere
|Implement ethane in carbon simulation
|Seb Eastham (MIT)<br>Eric Fleming (NASA)
|Yuzhong Zhang (Westlake)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Methane flux ingestion
|Mesospheric source of CO
|Eloise Marais (UCL)
|Dylan Jones (UofT)<br>Pam Wales (NASA GSFC)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
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|Drought-stress algorithm
|Wei Li (Houston)
|Emissions
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|Physically-based resolution correction for BVOC emissions using MEGAN
|May Fu (SUSTech)
|Emissions
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|Canadian forest fire prediction system (Canada government forecast model)
|Robin Stevens (Montreal)
|Emissions
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|Cooking emissions (not biofuel)
|Kelvin Bates (CU Boulder)
|Emissions
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|State-specific annual emissions scaling factors (US) (1990-2021)
|Ishir Dutta (MIT)
|Emissions
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|GISS-GC online
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|External model
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|Hybrid MPI-OpenMP in GCHP
|Seb Eastham (MIT)<br>Killian Murphy (York)<br>Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GCHP
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|MAPL3: Update to MAPL3 in GCHP, including replacement of ExtData.rc and HISTORY.rc with YAML files
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GCHP
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|MAPL3: Comply with MAPL "positive" standard in GCHP diagnostic files
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GCHP
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|Dust non-sphericity impacts on surface chem and optical properties
|MAPL3: Wildcards in GCHP History
|Inderjeet Singh (WashU)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Aerosols
|GCHP
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|Size-resolved stratospheric aerosol
|MAPL3: Output emissions with positive up convention in GCHP
|Seb Eastham (MIT)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Aerosols
|GCHP
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|Extend aerosol settling
|Assessment/improvement of OpenMP performance in GC-Classic and HEMCO standalone
|Eloise Marais (UCL)
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Aerosols
|Performance
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|Stratospheric aerosol APM
|Photophysical oxidation of aldehydes
|Fangqun Yu (SUNY)
|Paulo Sebastianelli (Wollongong)<br>Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
|Aerosols
|Chemistry
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|Plume-in-grid model
|DMS updates
|Hongwei Sun (Harvard)
|Will Porter (UCR)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Updated lightning NOx: Prescribe from ground and geostationary lightning flashes
|Furans emission and chemistry
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Lixu Jin (Montana)<br>Lu Hu (Montana)
|Emissions
|Chemistry + <br>Emissions
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|Seb aircraft emissions beyond recent 2019 update
|Cl2 prodcution from Fe aerosol
|Seb Eastham (MIT)
|Qianjie Chen (HK Poly)<br>Becky Alexander (UW)
|Emissions
|Chemistry
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|FRP-based fire emsisions for eastern US at 0.2 deg
|VCP emissions
|Charlie Fite (FSU)
|Kevin Bates (CU Boulder)
|Emissions
|Emissions
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|Hg iodine chemistry
|Bidirectional land-atmosphere exchange for Hg
|Yiming Fu<br>Yanxu Zhang (Nanjing U.)
|Yuying Cui (MIT/Tsinghua)
|Hg simulation
|Hg simulation
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|Hg simulation in GCHP
|OH covariances for inversions
|Ari Feinberg (MIT)<br>Lyssa Freese (MIT)
|Elise Penn (Harvard)
|Hg simulation
|Inversions
|
 
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|CESM2-GC offline
|Seb Eastham (ICL)<br>Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Met fields
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|Update Hg ocean and soil boundary conditions for consistency with new chemistry
|Re-binning of off-line sea salt and dust for TOMAS
|Yanxu Zhang (Nanjing U.)
|Betty Croft (Dalhousie)
|Hg simulation
|Microphysics
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|Dry deposition diagnostics by land cover
|TOMAS nucleation updates
|Holly Nowell (FSU)
|Sam O'Donnell (CSU)
|Diagnostics
|Microphysics
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|Dry deposition process diagnostics
|Stratospheric aerosol APM
|Holly Nowell (FSU)
|Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany)
|Diagnostics
|Microphysics
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|Isotope simulation for CO and CH4 in GCHP
|Transition from MERRA-2 to GEOS-IT for benchmarking
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|Carbon simulation
|Quality Assurance
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|Updated bottom-up global CH4 oil, gas, and coal emissions (GFEI v3)
|Automate integration testing on AWS
|Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)<br>Tia Scarpelli (U. Edinburgh)<br>Zichong Chen (Harvard)
|Yidan Tang (WashU)
|Emissions<br>CH4 simulation
|Quality Assurance
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|Modularization of aerosols code for interface with GOCART in GEOS
|Integration testing: Add across end of year run
|Christoph Keller (GMAO)
|GCST
|Structural
|Quality Assurance
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|Improve load balancing in GCHP
|Integration testing: Add GEOS-IT
|Seb Eastham (MIT)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|Model performance
|Quality Assurance
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|Testing the use of monthly mean MERRA-2 CWC with Pb-210 aerosol tracer
|Separate mixing, emissions, and drydep
|Bo Zhang (NIA)<br>Hongyu Liu (NIA / NASA Langley)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
|Transport
|Structural
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|Testing the use of a new scavenging parameterization developed by Luo and Yu for cold cloud with Pb-210 aerosol tracer
|Intel IFX compiler
|Gan Luo (SUNY Albany)<br>Fangqun Yu (SUNY-Albany)
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Transport
|Structural
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|Evaluate vertical mixing in GEOS-Chem with model-model and model-observation comparisons
|CMake option to only build libraries but not executable, also passing C-preprocessor statements to turn off code
|Seb Eastham (MIT)<br>Clara Orbe (NASA GISS)<br>Andrew Schuh (CSU)
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)<br>Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Transport
|Structural
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|MAPL version 3
|Remove differences introduced when breaking up GC-Classic runs in time; and flexible precision in HEMCO
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
|GCHP
|Structural
|Will include History wildcard handling in GCHP
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|Limit allocation of State_Met to what is needed per simulation
|Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
|Structural
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|Migrate benchmark meteorology from MERRA2 to GEOS-IT
|Using 3-D precipitation fluxes to calculate precipitation formation and re-evaporation in scavenging (to be consistent with GEOS/GOCART & ground precipitation)
|GCST
|Gan Luo (Albany)<br>Hongyu Liu (NIA/LaRC)<br>Bo Zhang (NIA/LaRC)
|Benchmarking
|Wet deposition
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|Updates to Aromatic chemistry
|Modal aerosol model (MAM7) in GCHP
|Stephen MacFarlane (UOW)<br>Jenny Fisher (UOW)
|Shreya Sharma (MIT)
|Aerosols
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|Online OCIM ocean biogeochemistry
|Lee Murray (Rochester)<br>Hannah Horowitz (UIUC)<br>Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Nitrate photolysis
|Perchlorate chemistry
|Mat Evans (York)<br>Thomas Sherwen (York)<br>Matthew Rowlinson (York)
|Yuk Chun Chan (UW)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|In aerosol chemistry Halogens
|Non-stomatal dry deposition (2-layer canopy model)
|Mat Evans (York)<br>Hansen Cao (CU Boulder)
|Michael Vermeuel (Purdue)
|Chemistry
|Dry Deposition
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|Continental chloride particle emissions (salty dust, road salt)
|Jessica Haskins (Utah)
|Emissions
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|Benchmark box model of GC Chemistry
|Multivolatility emission inventory to address gaps in EDGAR/HTAP etc.
|Katie Travis (NASA)
|Ruochong (Tshingua)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
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|Alkyl nitrates Alk7, PHAN
|Lightning NOx production rates
|Katie Travis (NASA)
|Bex Horner (UCL)
|Chemistry
|Emissions
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|Add stratospheric ozone species to full-chemistry simulations
|HFO and CF3CHO
|Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Beth Killen (Wollongong)<br>Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Perchlorate chemistry
|Glyoxal updates from isoprene
|Yuk Chun Chan (UWAB)
|Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|Explicit heterogeneous sulfate chemistry
|Iodine chemistry
|Katie Travis (NASA)<br>Becky Alexander (UT)
|Becky Alexander (UW)<br>Xuan Wang (CUHK)
|Chemistry
|Chemistry
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|HOx and ozone "emissions" from lightning as option in model to play with
|GFED5 biomass burning
|Jingqiu (Alaska)<br>Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Emissions
|Emissions
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|Sea salt aerosol from sea ice leads
|Ocean Hg surface concentrations for 2010-2020 from multi-model ensemble
|Hannah Horowitz (U. Illinois)
|Eric Roy (MIT)<br>Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC)
|Emissions
|Hg simulation
|
 
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|Soil Hg emissions 2010-2020
|Eric Roy (MIT)<br>Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC)
|Hg simulation
|
 
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|Air-sea exchange parameterization
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Hg simulation
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|Soil Hg emissions parameterization
|Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC)
|Hg simulation
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|Sea salt uptake of GOM
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Hg simulation
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|Drought-stress algorithm
|Photoreduction rate constant
|Wei Li (U. Houston)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Hg simulation
|
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|New observations (2010-2020) in standardized Hg benchmark for intercomparison
|Eric Roy (MIT)/Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC)
|Hg simulation
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|Biomass burning injection height profiles
|Hg simulation in GCHP
|Inderjeet Singh (WashU)
|Eric Roy (MIT)
|Emissions
|Hg simulation
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|OCIM integration
|OCIM - biogeochemical model - (C/P/N/Fe - no Hg yet) (MATLAB)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)<br>Lee Murray (Rochester)
|Hannah Horowitz (UIUC)
|Hg simulation
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|Possibly updating Hg oxidation chemistry based on Utah field campaigns
|Jessica Haskins (Utah)
|Hg simulation
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|Updating landcover products in GEOS-Chem
|New halogen/aerosol fields (surface area / AOD) from 10-year 14.4 benchmark simulation available online
|Chris Holmes (FSU)<br>Jeff Geddes (BU)
|Viral Shah (NASA GMAO); Eric Roy (MIT); Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC)
|Input data
|Input data
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|Dry deposition physical improvement
|Extend IMI to CO2 (ICI)
|Chris Holmes (FSU)
|Hannah Nesser (JPL)
|Dry deposition
|Inversions
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|Global emission inventory of metals
|Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech); He Zhong Tian (Peking Normal U)
|Metals simulation
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|Investigate and improve performance of aerosol chemistry
|Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
|Performance
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|PAH - update from version 11
|Lexia Cicone (MIT)
|POPs simulation
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|Species database more accessible; doc updates; TOL discussion
|Jessica Haskins (Utah)
|Structural
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|Stretched-grid plotting in GCPy
|Killian Murphy (York)
|Tools
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|Model inter-comparison of transport (GEOS, GCHP, GCClassic)
|Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard), Emma Knowland (NASA)
|Transport
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|TOMAS WRF-GC in regional Thailand simulation
|Comparing mass fluxes in GCHP vs. traditional lat/lon wind
|Win Trivitayanurak (Chulalongkorn U)
|Yuanjian Zhang (WashU), Seb Eastham (ICL)
|Aerosols
|Transport
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Latest revision as of 15:23, 20 November 2024

On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list is continuously updated based on code readiness and input from the Working Groups and the Steering Committee. For history of past releases see the GEOS-Chem Versions wiki page.

Merged and awaiting release

See the links below for items merged and awaiting release.

Mergeable at any time Version in development
GEOS-Chem no-diff-to-benchmark GEOS-Chem 14.6.0

Feature integration in progress

Features listed in this table are actively being integrated into GEOS-Chem by the GEOS-Chem Support Team. In addition, we continuously implement structural updates in the model to maintain and develop coupling with other models including GEOS, CESM, and the model adjoint.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Ease of implementation Notes and References
New version of CEDS at 0.1 deg Dandan Zhang (WashU) Emissions Simple
Use USTAR read from GEOS instead of calculating from U10M and V10M Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Emissions Simple
  • HEMCO PR #279
  • NOTE: WashU will recompute mass tuning factors for each met field & resolution (GCClassic)
Carbon simulation fixes in GCClassic and GCHP Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) 		Carbon simulation Medium
Investigate potential performance gains of replacing the KPP Rosenbrock solver with the LSODE solver Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Chemistry Medium
Fix obspack - not working in 14.4.0 Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Diagnostics Medium
Make GC-Classic bit-for-bit reproducible upon restart
(part 1 of 2) 		Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GC-Classic Medium
Capture all trop and PBL height changes in budget diagnostics Chris Holmes (FSU)
Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) 		Diagnostics Medium
Derive convective precipitation flux if using FP/IT generated with Grell-Freitas Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
Viral Shah (GMAO)
Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) 		Convection Medium
GCHP mass flux fixes Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) GCHP Simple
HEMCO log print updates Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) ESMs Medium
Fix yaml reader bug with certain compilers Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Build Simple

Prioritized and in the queue

Features listed in this table are prioritized for integration into GEOS-Chem in the near future.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Ease of implementation Delivery status Notes and References
Retire CH4, CO2, tagCO simulations in favor of carbon simulation Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) Carbon gases Simple
Correct the issue that injection height has been artificially decreased by HEMCO Lixu Jun (Montana) Emissions Simple Delivered
June 2024
Capability to run GCClassic at 0.125x0.15625 resolution Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard)
Xiaolin Wang (Harvard) 		Nested grid Simple Delivered
Strat-adjusted RF in GCC and GCHP Connor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Radiation Simple Delivered
Archived TCR-2 OH fields for carbon simulations Kazu Miyazaki (JPL)
Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) 		Input data Simple Data delivered
Oct 2024
  • This will be the default OH, but users will have the option of selecting other OH fields
  • geos-chem issue #2537
Dust non-sphericity impacts on optical properties Inderjeet Singh (WashU) Aerosols Medium Not yet delivered

Ready to go in

Features listed in this table are ready to go in but have either not been delivered or are not yet prioritized for integration into GEOS-Chem.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Delivery status Notes and Refereneces


Binary Activity Thermodynamic (BAT) model for non-ideal mixing of water and organics in organic aerosol Camilo Serrano (McGill)
Andreas Zuend (McGill) 		Aerosols Not delivered
Update UCX to include gravitational settling of aerosol species beyond just BCPI Conor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Aerosols Not delivered
Seasalt aerosol from sea ice leads (2002-2011) Hannah Horrowitz (UIUC) Aerosols Not delivered
  • Offline and online, ready to go in HEMCO (optional in addition to existing seasalt emissions)
Global organic N dep from various emissions; nitrate aromatics updates May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry +
Deposition 		Not delivered
Dry deposition to F90 to improve readability Chris Holmes (FSU) Dry Deposition Not delivered
Ecophysiology module in GEOS-Chem for biosphere-atmosphere exchange Joey Lam (CUHK)
Amos Tai (CUHK) 		Dry deposition Delivered
Feb 2021
FRP-based fire emissions for eastern US at 0.2 (2019-2020) Chris Holmes (FSU) Emissions Not delivered
China agriculture NH3 emissions Amos Tai (CUHK) Emissions Not delivered
T-dependent anthropogenic VOCs May Fu (SUSTech) Emissions Not delivered
  • Option. Requires processing existing anthropogenic VOC emissions to generate offline emissions to read in. Parameterised for China.
New source functions for transport tracers beryllium-7 and beryllium-10 Minjie Zheng (ETH) Emissions Delivered
June 2024
LPJ land cover (global), fire (W US), dust emissions (SW N America), 1700-2100 Yang Li (Baylor U)
Loretta Mickley (Harvard) 		Emissions Delivered
  • Data involves many files- need to think about temporal frequency
Australian Hg emissions (2000-2019) Stephen MacFarlane (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) 		Emissions Not delivered
  • MacFarlane et al. (2024)
  • Includes emissions from black and brown coal power plants, various metal production/processing sources (Aluminium, gold, copper, lead, etc), waste products, cement production, oil refining and petroleum, chlor alkali plants, and cremation
Hg geogenic emissions (volcanic, rock weathering) Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions Not delivered
Hg biomass burning - FINN2.5 & GFED4 Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions Not delivered
BCC-GC online Lin Zhang (PKU) External Model Not delivered
GC-YIBS with online fire emissions Xu Yue (NUIST)
Hong Liao (NUIST) 		External Model Not delivered
GISS-GC offline (GCAP) Lee Murray (Rochester) GCAP Not delivered

Almost there (< 6 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team within the next 6 months.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
Fixes to stratospheric aerosol settling Connor Barker (UCL)
Eloise Marais (UCL) 		Aerosols
DMS chemistry in v14 Linia Tashmim (UCR)
Will Porter (UCR) 		Chemistry
KPP standalone + 3D Interface Obin Sturm (USC) Chemistry
NO2+OH+H2O kinetics Mat Evans (York) Chemistry
LSODES solver in KPP for faster kinetics Haipeng Lin (Harvard) Chemistry
Load balancing in chemistry solver (GCHP) Zhouran Sun (WashU) Chemistry +
Performance
Active chemistry in mesosphere for both GCHP and GCClassic Helena McDonald (MIT)
Sebastian Eastham (ICL) 		Chemistry
Updated aromatic oxidation Stephen MacFarlane (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) 		Chemistry
MCO3 uptake by cloud forming MP; leading to lower PAN Laura Yang (Harvard) Chemistry
Implement isotope simulation for CH4 in the carbon simulation Lee Murray (Rochester) Chemistry
  • Will have to change negative emissions from soil to a first-order loss process
Documentation for adding additional aerosol species Connor Barker (UCL) Documentation
Column diagnostics Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard)
Viral Shah (GMAO) 		Diagnostics
TOMAS rate diagnostics -- improve performance Betty Croft (WashU/Dal) Diagnostics +
Performance
Archive gamma values from heterogeneous chemistry Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Diagnostics
RRTMG Documentation GCST Documentation
Canopy Physics Model Sam Silva (MIT) Dry Deposition
Dry deposition diagnostics by land cover Holly Nowell (FSU)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Dry Deposition
Dry deposition process diagnostics Holly Nowell (FSU)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Dry Deposition
Biomass burning for TOMAS Nicole June (CSU) Emissions +
Microphysics
Historic biomass burning (1750-2010) Pengfei Liu (Georgia Tech) Emissions
Rice methane emissions Zichong Cheng (Harvard) Emissions+
Carbon simulation
Updated bottom-up global CH4 oil, gas, and coal emissions (GFEI v3) Tia Scarpelli (Carbon Mapper)
Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) 		Emissions
New prior CO2 biospheric fluxes from CMS-FLUX and GMAO Kevin Bowman (JPL)
Lesley Ott (GMAO) 		Emissions
  • GMAO can provide high-resolution fluxes (as high as 12 km)
Snowpack Br2 emission Chris Holmes (FSU) Emissions
EDGAR v8.1_toxHg emissions for 1970-2022 Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions
Improve pressure handling in GCHP advection Yuanjian Zhang (WashU)
Seb Eastham (ICL) 		GCHP
Add error trap for duplicate scale factors in HEMCO Bob Yantosca (Harvard) HEMCO
Integration testing: Add stretched grid Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add GCHP mass flux run Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Reinstate TOMAS40 Betty Croft (Dalhousie/WashU) Quality Assurance
Continue cleanup of C-preprocessor switches Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Structural
Updates to Luo deposition scheme Gan Luo (Albany) Wet Deposition
  • New version, keep as switch (not default)
Testing the use of a new scavenging parameterization developed by Luo and Yu for cold cloud with Pb-210 aerosol tracer Gan Luo (Albany)
Fangqun Yu (Albany) 		Wet Deposition

Over the horizon (6-12 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team in the 6-12 months timeframe.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
ML algorithms for bulk aerosol Arshad Nair (Albany)
Fangqun Yu (Albany) 		Aerosols
Heterogeneous sulfate chemistry Katie Travis (NASA) Chemistry
H2 as an active species Seb Eastham (ICL) Chemistry
HCN, acetonitrile as fire tracers Kevin Bates (CU Boulder) Chemistry
Implement ethane in carbon simulation Yuzhong Zhang (Westlake) Chemistry
Mesospheric source of CO Dylan Jones (UofT)
Pam Wales (NASA GSFC) 		Emissions
Drought-stress algorithm Wei Li (Houston) Emissions
Physically-based resolution correction for BVOC emissions using MEGAN May Fu (SUSTech) Emissions
Canadian forest fire prediction system (Canada government forecast model) Robin Stevens (Montreal) Emissions
Cooking emissions (not biofuel) Kelvin Bates (CU Boulder) Emissions
State-specific annual emissions scaling factors (US) (1990-2021) Ishir Dutta (MIT) Emissions
GISS-GC online Lee Murray (Rochester) External model
Hybrid MPI-OpenMP in GCHP Seb Eastham (MIT)
Killian Murphy (York)
Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) 		GCHP
MAPL3: Update to MAPL3 in GCHP, including replacement of ExtData.rc and HISTORY.rc with YAML files Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
MAPL3: Comply with MAPL "positive" standard in GCHP diagnostic files Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
MAPL3: Wildcards in GCHP History Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
MAPL3: Output emissions with positive up convention in GCHP Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) GCHP
Assessment/improvement of OpenMP performance in GC-Classic and HEMCO standalone Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Performance
Photophysical oxidation of aldehydes Paulo Sebastianelli (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) 		Chemistry
DMS updates Will Porter (UCR) Chemistry
Furans emission and chemistry Lixu Jin (Montana)
Lu Hu (Montana) 		Chemistry +
Emissions
Cl2 prodcution from Fe aerosol Qianjie Chen (HK Poly)
Becky Alexander (UW) 		Chemistry
VCP emissions Kevin Bates (CU Boulder) Emissions
Bidirectional land-atmosphere exchange for Hg Yuying Cui (MIT/Tsinghua) Hg simulation
OH covariances for inversions Elise Penn (Harvard) Inversions
CESM2-GC offline Seb Eastham (ICL)
Lee Murray (Rochester) 		Met fields
Re-binning of off-line sea salt and dust for TOMAS Betty Croft (Dalhousie) Microphysics
TOMAS nucleation updates Sam O'Donnell (CSU) Microphysics
Stratospheric aerosol APM Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany) Microphysics
Transition from MERRA-2 to GEOS-IT for benchmarking Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Automate integration testing on AWS Yidan Tang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add across end of year run GCST Quality Assurance
Integration testing: Add GEOS-IT Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Quality Assurance
Separate mixing, emissions, and drydep Yuanjian Zhang (WashU) Structural
Intel IFX compiler Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Structural
CMake option to only build libraries but not executable, also passing C-preprocessor statements to turn off code Bob Yantosca (Harvard)
Lee Murray (Rochester) 		Structural
Remove differences introduced when breaking up GC-Classic runs in time; and flexible precision in HEMCO Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard) Structural
Limit allocation of State_Met to what is needed per simulation Melissa Sulprizio (Harvard) Structural
Using 3-D precipitation fluxes to calculate precipitation formation and re-evaporation in scavenging (to be consistent with GEOS/GOCART & ground precipitation) Gan Luo (Albany)
Hongyu Liu (NIA/LaRC)
Bo Zhang (NIA/LaRC) 		Wet deposition

Longer term (12-24 months)

Features listed in this table are in development and will likely be delivered to the GEOS-Chem Support Team in the 12-24 months timeframe.

Feature Contributor(s) Model scope Notes and References
Modal aerosol model (MAM7) in GCHP Shreya Sharma (MIT) Aerosols
Online OCIM ocean biogeochemistry Lee Murray (Rochester)
Hannah Horowitz (UIUC)
Chris Holmes (FSU) 		Chemistry
Perchlorate chemistry Yuk Chun Chan (UW) Chemistry
Non-stomatal dry deposition (2-layer canopy model) Michael Vermeuel (Purdue) Dry Deposition
Continental chloride particle emissions (salty dust, road salt) Jessica Haskins (Utah) Emissions
Multivolatility emission inventory to address gaps in EDGAR/HTAP etc. Ruochong (Tshingua) Emissions
Lightning NOx production rates Bex Horner (UCL) Emissions
HFO and CF3CHO Beth Killen (Wollongong)
Jenny Fisher (Wollongong) 		Chemistry
Glyoxal updates from isoprene Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech) Chemistry
Iodine chemistry Becky Alexander (UW)
Xuan Wang (CUHK) 		Chemistry
GFED5 biomass burning Eric Roy (MIT) Emissions
Ocean Hg surface concentrations for 2010-2020 from multi-model ensemble Eric Roy (MIT)
Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) 		Hg simulation
Soil Hg emissions 2010-2020 Eric Roy (MIT)
Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) 		Hg simulation
Air-sea exchange parameterization Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
Soil Hg emissions parameterization Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Hg simulation
Sea salt uptake of GOM Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
Photoreduction rate constant Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
New observations (2010-2020) in standardized Hg benchmark for intercomparison Eric Roy (MIT)/Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Hg simulation
Hg simulation in GCHP Eric Roy (MIT) Hg simulation
OCIM - biogeochemical model - (C/P/N/Fe - no Hg yet) (MATLAB) Hannah Horowitz (UIUC) Hg simulation
Possibly updating Hg oxidation chemistry based on Utah field campaigns Jessica Haskins (Utah) Hg simulation
New halogen/aerosol fields (surface area / AOD) from 10-year 14.4 benchmark simulation available online Viral Shah (NASA GMAO); Eric Roy (MIT); Ari Feinberg (IQF-CSIC) Input data
Extend IMI to CO2 (ICI) Hannah Nesser (JPL) Inversions
Global emission inventory of metals Tzung-May Fu (SUSTech); He Zhong Tian (Peking Normal U) Metals simulation
Investigate and improve performance of aerosol chemistry Bob Yantosca (Harvard) Performance
PAH - update from version 11 Lexia Cicone (MIT) POPs simulation
Species database more accessible; doc updates; TOL discussion Jessica Haskins (Utah) Structural
Stretched-grid plotting in GCPy Killian Murphy (York) Tools
Model inter-comparison of transport (GEOS, GCHP, GCClassic) Lizzie Lundgren (Harvard), Emma Knowland (NASA) Transport
Comparing mass fluxes in GCHP vs. traditional lat/lon wind Yuanjian Zhang (WashU), Seb Eastham (ICL) Transport
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