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This page contains information about the Radon-Lead-Beryllium (and optional passive species) simulation in GEOS-Chem.
Overview
The Rn-Pb-Be simulation in GEOS-Chem was based on that of the old Harvard/GISS CTM model. The current simulation follows Liu et al (2001).
The standard Rn-Pb-Be simulation uses the following tracers:
- Rn222, which is emitted naturally from soils
- Pb210, which is the primary decay product of Rn222
- Be7, which is produced by cosmic rays in the stratosphere and upper atmosphere
- Be10, which is produced by cosmic rays in the stratosphere and upper atmosphere (introduced in GEOS-Chem 12.2.0)
This simulation is most frequently used to validate the convection, advection, and wet scavenging processes in GEOS-Chem.
Starting in GEOS-Chem 12.2.0, the Rn-Pb-Be simulation has been expanded to include several passive species in a new "Transport Tracer simulation." Please see this wiki post for more information.
Prior to GEOS-Chem v9-02, the Rn-Pb-Be simulation was not compatible with the non-local PBL mixing scheme. If you are running the Rn-Pb-Be simulation with any version of GEOS-Chem prior to v9-02, you must select the TURBDAY PBL mixing scheme for the Rn-Pb-Be simulation. See below for more information.
Sources
Species | Chemical source | ||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rn222 | The default source of Rn222 follows Jacob et al. (1997):
| ||||||||||||
Pb210 | Radioactive decay from Rn222 according to the exponential law:
Where ΔT is the emission timestep in seconds. | ||||||||||||
Be7 | The source of Be7 is taken from the following reference:
with the following modifications from Liu et al. (2001):
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Be10 | Be10 has an identical source distribution as Be7 following Koch and Rind (1998). |
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 13:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Sinks
The table below shows the sinks for Rn222, Pb210, and Be7. In the equations below, ΔT is the emission timestep in seconds.
Species | Chemical sink | Drydep sink? | Wetdep sink? |
---|---|---|---|
Rn222 | Half-life of 3.83 days (Liu at al., 2001).
Decays into Pb210 according to the exponential law:
|
no | no |
Pb210 | Half-life of 22.3 years (Liu et al., 2001).
Decays according to the exponential law:
|
yes | yes |
Be7 | Half-life of 53.3 days (Liu et al., 2001).
Decays according to the exponential law:
|
yes | yes |
Be10 | Half-life of 5.84e8 days (Koch and Rind, 1998).
Decays according to the exponential law:
|
yes | yes |
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 13:56, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
Dry deposition
The following dry deposition updates were recently made to the GEOS-Chem Rn-Pb-Be simulation:
GEOS-Chem v10-01
In GEOS-Chem v10-01 and higher versions, dry deposition of advected tracers was centralized into the module GeosCore/mixing_mod.F90. This has the following implications for the GEOS-Chem Rn-Pb-Be simulation:
- Routine DRYFLXRnPbBe—which is where dry deposition losses had been applied to Pb210 and Be7 in prior GEOS-Chem versions—has now been removed from module GeosCore/drydep_mod.F. This routine has been rendered obsolete.
- Routine DO_TEND in module GeosCore/mixing_mod.F90 now computes the ND44 diagnostic (i.e. archival of Pb210 and Be7 dry deposition fluxes. This diagnostic was formerly updated in routine DRYFLXRnPbBe, which has since been removed.
- IMPORTANT!!! GEOS-Chem v10-01 now archives the ND44 dry deposition fluxes (i.e. GAMAP category DRYD-FLX) as molec/cm2/s for ALL simulations. (In prior GEOS-Chem versions, the ND44 drydep fluxes had units of kg/s.) Therefore, when using output from the GEOS-Chem v10-01 Rn-Pb-Be simulation, make sure to adjust your data analysis programs to expect dry deposition fluxes in molec/cm2/s.
- Also note: For the Rn-Pb-Be simulation, molec/cm2/s really means atoms/cm2/s. GEOS-Chem uses the same unit string molec/cm2/s regardless of whether a species is an element or a molecule.
--Bob Y. (talk) 20:34, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
Non-local PBL mixing
GEOS-Chem v9-02
This update was tested in the 1-month benchmark simulation v9-02o and approved on 03 Sep 2013.
Capability to use the non-local PBL mixing scheme was added in GEOS-Chem v9-02. Code updates were provided by Jintai Lin.
Karen Yu evaluated the non-local PBL mixing scheme in the Rn-Pb-Be simulation using GEOS-5 and GEOS-FP met fields. Please see these plots comparing the simulation with and without the non-local PBL mixing scheme.
--Bob Yantosca (talk) 16:43, 8 January 2016 (UTC)
GEOS-Chem v9-01-03 and earlier
Helen Amos discovered that the Rn-Pb-Be simulation was not compatible with non-local PBL mixing. In GEOS-Chem v9-01-03 and earlier, You must use the TURBDAY PBL mixing scheme. In the Chemistry Menu of input.geos:
Turn on PBL Mixing? : T => Use non-local PBL? : F
--Melissa Sulprizio 17:56, 5 August 2013 (EDT)
Vertical Grid
This update was included in v11-02e (approved 24 Mar 2018).
Starting in GEOS-Chem v11-02e the default vertical grid used in Rn-Pb-Be simulations is the native 72-level grid for GEOS-FP and MERRA-2.
Lizzie Lundgren wrote:
- The RnPbBe uses 47 levels by default (NO_REDUCED=n) for GEOS-Chem Classic and this is what we benchmark. GCHP, however, only uses the full 72 level grid. I recall that using either option gives the same result. I therefore wonder if we could change the GEOS-Chem Classic default to be 72 levels, consistent with GCHP. I do not think this would be significantly more expensive computationally.
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 18:08, 16 March 2018 (UTC)
Validation
The information was computed from 1-year Rn-Pb-Be benchmark simulations.
1-year benchmark simulations
Benchmark overview
1-year Rn-Pb-Be benchmark simulations are completed at the request of the Transport Working Group or whenever an update is introduced into the code that will impact transport and/or wet deposition. Each of these benchmarks involve a 4-year spinup period, followed by the 1-year run used for evaluation.
Benchmark plots
Budget of Pb210
In this table we plot the budgets of Pb210 obtained from 1-year benchmark simulations at 4° x 5° resolution done with various GEOS-Chem versions.
Version | Met Field | Year | Tropospheric burden [g] | Tropospheric lifetime against deposition [days] | Sources [g day -1] | Sinks [g day-1] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
From Stratosphere | From Troposphere | Dry Deposition | Wet Deposition | Radioactive decay | |||||||
Total | Stratiform | Convective | |||||||||
12.8.0 (with Luo2019 wetdep) |
GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 105.1827 | 3.2461 | 0.2690 | 32.1142 | 2.3068 | 30.0303 | 25.4236 | 4.6067 | 0.0088608 |
12.8.0 | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 211.6465 | 6.5363 | 0.2690 | 32.1142 | 3.9521 | 28.4142 | 19.9437 | 8.4705 | 0.0178018 |
12.2.0 | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 218.330 | 6.71344 | 0.236801 | 32.2602 | 3.95678 | 28.5218 | 20.0439 | 8.47787 | 0.0183735 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 217.941 | 6.71192 | 0.224000 | 32.2206 | 3.94971 | 28.4770 | 20.0147 | 8.46232 | 0.0183407 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2013 | 229.338 | 7.10583 | 0.219856 | 32.0661 | 3.90212 | 28.3646 | 19.9166 | 8.44793 | 0.0192987 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 229.338 | 7.10583 | 0.219864 | 32.0661 | 3.90212 | 28.3646 | 19.9166 | 8.44793 | 0.0192987 |
v11-02b | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 229.061 | 7.09725 | 0.219669 | 32.0661 | 3.93661 | 28.3299 | 19.8931 | 8.43679 | 0.0192754 |
v11-01i | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 229.335 | 7.10581 | 0.219894 | 32.0656 | 3.90206 | 28.3642 | 19.9163 | 8.44786 | 0.0192984 |
v11-01h | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 205.551 | 6.37603 | 0.200768 | 32.0656 | 3.32588 | 28.9232 | 22.2968 | 6.62642 | 0.0173020 |
v11-01f | MERRA-2 | 2013 | 199.426 | 6.20202 | 0.237400 | 31.9437 | 3.26365 | 28.9007 | 21.7525 | 7.14814 | 0.0167875 |
v11-01f | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 204.931 | 6.37746 | 0.225323 | 31.9356 | 3.32210 | 28.8216 | 22.2060 | 6.61553 | 0.0172499 |
v11-01d | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 210.371 | 6.54296 | 0.225956 | 31.9538 | 3.41587 | 28.7451 | 21.9070 | 6.83813 | 0.0177696 |
v11-01b | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 212.655 | 6.60214 | 0.228550 | 31.9528 | 3.49478 | 28.6686 | 22.0420 | 6.62657 | 0.0179612 |
v10-01 | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 250.912 | 7.77516 | 0.0832825 | 32.2152 | 3.51910 | 28.7582 | 22.0207 | 6.73749 | 0.0211769 |
v9-02r | GEOS-FP | 2012/2013 | 247.630 | 7.71356 | 0.143133 | 31.9904 | 3.15887 | 28.9538 | 22.5351 | 6.41867 | 0.0208565 |
v9-02r | GEOS-5 | 2012/2013 | 305.699 | 9.25835 | 0.419521 | 32.6109 | 3.42747 | 29.5772 | 20.2059 | 9.37127 | 0.0257354 |
v9-01-03e | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 314.790 | 9.51050 | 0.128670 | 32.9831 | 3.48612 | 29.5991 | 20.8285 | 8.77061 | 0.0265495 |
v9-01-02 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 317.884 | 9.60957 | 0.121441 | 32.9831 | 3.49208 | 29.5857 | 19.5148 | 10.0709 | 0.0268078 |
v9-01-01 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 316.253 | 9.55568 | 0.129852 | 32.9831 | 3.66397 | 29.4223 | 19.4090 | 10.0134 | 0.0251665 |
v8-03-02 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 298.318 | 9.01288 | 0.129642 | 32.9831 | 3.21013 | 29.8775 | 21.3283 | 8.54923 | 0.0266710 |
NOTES:
- Bolded text denotes change in meteorology product and/or meteorology year.
- The simulations that utilized GEOS-5 met fields were done for year 2005, with a 4-year spinup. (Computed by Hongyu Liu)
- The benchmark simulations for v9-02r were done for June 2012–May 2013, with a 2-month spinup. This was due to data availability of the GEOS-FP met fields at the time of the simulation. (Completed by Karen Yu)
- The simulations for GEOS-Chem v10-01 and later versions utilized GEOS-FP met fields for the year 2013, with a 4-year spinup. The results reported here are for simulations using the non-local PBL mixing (VDIFF) scheme. (Completed by the GEOS-Chem Support Team)
- The simulations for GEOS-Chem 12.2.0 and later versions utilized GEOS-FP met fields for the year 2016, with a 10-year spinup. The results reported here are for simulations using the non-local PBL mixing (VDIFF) scheme. (Completed by the GEOS-Chem Support Team)
- Hongyu Liu and Bo Zhang are investigating the low Pb tropospheric lifetime against deposition observed in v11-01b using GEOS-FP. A quick fix was tested in v11-01d, but subsequently removed because of the high impact on aerosols. For more information, see this discussion on the Wet deposition wiki page.
Budget of Be7
In this table we plot the budgets of Be7 obtained from 1-year benchmark simulations at 4° x 5° resolution done with various GEOS-Chem versions.
Version | Met Field | Year | Tropospheric burden [g] | Tropospheric lifetime against deposition [days] | Sources [g day -1] | Sinks [g day-1] | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
From Stratosphere | From Troposphere | Dry Deposition | Wet Deposition | Radioactive decay | |||||||
Total | Stratiform | Convective | |||||||||
12.8.0 (with Luo2019 wetdep) |
GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 1.1882 | 9.5228 | 0.2882 | 0.1149 | 0.0052 | 0.1188 | 0.1029 | 0.0159 | 0.0154770 |
12.8.0 | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 2.8927 | 20.5842 | 0.2882 | 0.1149 | 0.0095 | 0.1305 | 0.1047 | 0.0258 | 0.0376572 |
12.2.0 | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 3.55540 | 24.5959 | 0.0541444 | 0.136303 | 0.00952537 | 0.134645 | 0.108871 | 0.0257736 | 0.0462768 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2016 | 3.56036 | 24.6000 | 0.0543652 | 0.136303 | 0.00955045 | 0.134776 | 0.108970 | 0.0258063 | 0.0463413 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP (72L) | 2013 | 3.50286 | 24.9516 | 0.0529614 | 0.132687 | 0.0102709 | 0.129784 | 0.103733 | 0.0260514 | 0.0455928 |
v11-02e | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.51047 | 24.9816 | 0.0531919 | 0.132687 | 0.0102796 | 0.129907 | 0.103831 | 0.0260759 | 0.0456918 |
v11-02b | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.51002 | 24.9773 | 0.0531920 | 0.132688 | 0.0103364 | 0.129856 | 0.103796 | 0.0260605 | 0.0456861 |
v11-01i | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.51044 | 24.9815 | 0.0531920 | 0.132685 | 0.0102795 | 0.129907 | 0.103831 | 0.0260760 | 0.0456914 |
v11-01h | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.27337 | 22.7988 | 0.0531059 | 0.132685 | 0.00626941 | 0.136914 | 0.124153 | 0.0127610 | 0.0426082 |
v11-01f | MERRA-2 | 2013 | 3.12435 | 21.2728 | 0.0538848 | 0.133202 | 0.00650753 | 0.139910 | 0.124784 | 0.0151255 | 0.0406699 |
v11-01f | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.27720 | 22.8066 | 0.0531204 | 0.132842 | 0.00628201 | 0.137021 | 0.124239 | 0.0127822 | 0.0426591 |
v11-01d | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.32564 | 23.2523 | 0.0530363 | 0.132914 | 0.00664940 | 0.135989 | 0.122347 | 0.0136424 | 0.0433123 |
v11-01b | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.33530 | 23.3408 | 0.0530463 | 0.132914 | 0.00698390 | 0.135539 | 0.1228950 | 0.0126441 | 0.0434378 |
v10-01 | GEOS-FP | 2013 | 3.98942 | 30.1194 | 0.0512072 | 0.132977 | 0.00794288 | 0.124298 | 0.1101450 | 0.0141529 | 0.0519433 |
v9-02r | GEOS-FP | 2012/2013 | 3.41039 | 25.9787 | 0.0630964 | 0.112349 | 0.00782526 | 0.123206 | 0.1093560 | 0.0138500 | 0.0444134 |
v9-02r | GEOS-5 | 2012/2013 | 3.49564 | 27.5376 | 0.0674867 | 0.104750 | 0.00881422 | 0.117906 | 0.0844566 | 0.0334494 | 0.0455165 |
v9-01-03e | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 4.37787 | 34.6750 | 0.0504472 | 0.132552 | 0.00882144 | 0.117156 | 0.0858211 | 0.0393817 | 0.0570217 |
v9-01-02 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 4.39653 | 34.8814 | 0.0504253 | 0.132552 | 0.00936374 | 0.116350 | 0.0769681 | 0.0393817 | 0.0572633 |
v9-01-01 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 4.39407 | 34.8514 | 0.0504328 | 0.132552 | 0.00969345 | 0.116060 | 0.0767926 | 0.0392671 | 0.0572312 |
v8-03-02 | GEOS-5 | 2005 | 4.31961 | 33.9930 | 0.0504585 | 0.132552 | 0.00808056 | 0.118666 | 0.0846774 | 0.0339885 | 0.0562636 |
NOTES:
- Bolded text denotes change in meteorology product and/or meteorology year.
- The simulations that utilized GEOS-5 met fields were done for year 2005, with a 4-year spinup. (Computed by Hongyu Liu)
- The benchmark simulations for v9-02r were done for June 2012–May 2013, with a 2-month spinup. This was due to data availability of the GEOS-FP met fields at the time of the simulation. (Completed by Karen Yu)
- The simulations for GEOS-Chem v10-01 and later versions utilized GEOS-FP met fields for the year 2013, with a 4-year spinup. The results reported here are for simulations using the non-local PBL mixing (VDIFF) scheme. (Completed by the GEOS-Chem Support Team)
- The simulations for GEOS-Chem 12.2.0 and later versions utilized GEOS-FP met fields for the year 2016, with a 10-year spinup. The results reported here are for simulations using the non-local PBL mixing (VDIFF) scheme. (Completed by the GEOS-Chem Support Team)
Radon flux diagnostic
This update will be added in GEOS-Chem v11-03.
Daniel Jacob wrote:
- I suggest adding to the Rn-Pb-Be benchmark simulation a Rn flux diagnostic for a box across the coastal eastern US made up of 2x2 gridboxes in the horizontal and extending up to 3 levels in the vertical. This would allow testing of the horizontal fluxes as well as the vertical fluxes from advection, convection, and PBL mixing. Benchmark success would be measured by mass balance in that box and comparison to previous version. The first order of business will be to test whether we get a good Rn mass balance to test that the flux diagnostics (ND24, ND25, ND26) works.
--Melissa Sulprizio (talk) 21:39, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
References
- Liu, H., D. Jacob, I. Bey, and R.M. Yantosca, Constraints from 210Pb and 7Be on wet deposition and transport in a global three-dimensional chemical tracer model driven by assimilated meteorological fields, J. Geophys. Res, 106, D11, 12109-12128, 2001.
- Jacob et al., Evaluation and intercomparison of global atmospheric transport models using 222Rn and other short-lived tracers, J. Geophys. Res, 102, 5953-5970, 1997.
- Koch, D.M., D.J. Jacob, and W.C. Graustein, Vertical transport of tropospheric aerosols as indicated by 7Be and 210Pb in a chemical tracer model, J. Geophys. Res, 101, D13, 18651-18666, 1996.
- Koch, D., and D. Rind, Beryllium 10/beryllium 7 as a tracer of stratospheric transport, J. Geophys. Res., 103, D4, 3907-3917, 1998.
- Lal, D., and B. Peters, Cosmic ray produced radioactivity on the Earth. Handbuch der Physik, 46/2, 551-612, edited by K. Sitte, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1967.
Previous issues that are now resolved
Typo in HEMCO extension module hcox_gc_RnPbBe_mod.F90
This fix was included in v11-01f (approved 16 Apr 2016).
Mat Evans wrote:
We’ve just installed fort 16.0.1 (upgrading from 13.0.1).
A bug come up in the compilation of the code for HEMCO/Extensions/hcox_gc_RnPbBe_mod.F where there is essentially a data statement. The value 54_hp wouldn’t compile as it was an integer but 54.0_hp would.
In module HEMCO/Extensions/hcox_gc_RnPbBe_mod.F90, we have replaced the text in RED:
BESOU(:,22) = (/ 25.5_hp, 26.5_hp, 32.0_hp, 40.5_hp, &
54_hp, 67.5_hp, 69.5_hp, 69.5_hp, &
69.5_hp, 69.5_hp /)
with the text in GREEN:
BESOU(:,22) = (/ 25.5_hp, 26.5_hp, 32.0_hp, 40.5_hp, &
54.0_hp, 67.5_hp, 69.5_hp, 69.5_hp, &
69.5_hp, 69.5_hp /)
--Bob Yantosca (talk) 15:34, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
Missing drydep diagnostics caused by tracer name error
This update was tested in the 1-month benchmark simulation v9-01-03g and approved on 27 Feb 2012.
Please use the following tracer names in input.geos when setting up a Rn-Pb-Be simulation:
%%% TRACER MENU %%% : Type of simulation : 1 Number of Tracers : 3 Tracer Entries -------> : TR# Name g/mole Tracer Members; () = emitted Tracer #1 : 1 Rn 222.0 Tracer #2 : 2 Pb 210.0 Tracer #3 : 3 Be7 7.0
If you use alternate spellings for the Rn and Pb tracers, such as:
Tracer #1 : 1 Rn222 222.0 Tracer #2 : 2 Pb210 210.0
Then this may cause the dry deposition fluxes and frequencies for Pb210 not to be printed out.
A fix is forthcoming in GEOS-Chem v9-01-03.
--Bob Y. 11:57, 7 July 2011 (EDT)
Outstanding issues
None at this time