GEOS-Chem overview

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Introduction

• Overview of GEOS-Chem and its user community
• Narrative description of GEOS-Chem
• GEOS-Chem welcome letter for new users

GEOS-Chem user community

• GEOS-Chem Steering Committee
• GEOS-Chem Support Team
• GEOS-Chem People & Projects
• GEOS-Chem Working Groups
  • Adjoint Model and Data Assimilation Working Group
  • Aerosols Working Group
  • Carbon Cycle Working Group
  • Chemistry-Ecosystem-Climate Working Group
  • GEOS-Chem High Performance Working Group
  • Hg and POPs Working Group
  • Chemistry Working Group
  • Emissions and Deposition Working Group
  • Transport Working Group
  • Software Engineering Working Group
  • Stratospheric Working Group
• GEOS-Chem Nested Model
• Machine learning related to GEOS-Chem

Documentation

General documentation

• GEOS-Chem basics
• Getting Started with GEOS-Chem
• Getting Started with GCHP
• Running GEOS-Chem on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform
• WRF-GC (GEOS-Chem in WRF)
• GEOS-Chem Adjoint

GEOS-Chem guides

We have created the following Guides to assist you in finding information on several important GEOS-Chem topics:

• Guide to compilers for GEOS-Chem
• Guide to GEOS-Chem error messages
• Guide to netCDF in GEOS-Chem
• Guide to GEOS-Chem performance
• Guide to species in GEOS-Chem
• Guide to using Git with GEOS-Chem
• Guide to visualization and analysis tools for GEOS-Chem

Additional resources

• Submitting updates for inclusion in GEOS-Chem
• GEOS-Chem newsletters
• GEOS-Chem versions
• GEOS-Chem public license and list of developers
• List of GEOS-Chem publications
• Recommendations for offering co-authorships to GEOS-Chem developers
• GEOS-Chem Search Engines

Further reading

Please see the following resources for more information about GEOS-Chem:

Grids

• FlexGrid: Defining custom horizontal and vertical grids (new in 12.4.0)
• GEOS-Chem horizontal grids
• GEOS-Chem vertical grids

Meteorology fields

• Overview of GMAO met data products
• Version history of GMAO met data products

Species

• Species in GEOS-Chem

Model components

• Emissions
• Chemistry
  • FlexChem
• Advection
• Boundary layer mixing
• Cloud convection
• Dry deposition
  • Leaf area indices in GEOS-Chem
  • Olson land map
• Wet deposition

Aerosols

• Carbonaceous aerosols
• Mineral dust aerosols
• Secondary organic aerosols
• Sea salt aerosols
• Sulfate aerosols
• Aerosol-only simulation
• Aerosol optical properties
• Aerosol thermodynamical equilibrium
• Aerosol Microphysics
  • APM
  • TOMAS

Diagnostics

• List of diagnostics archived to netCDF format
• List of diagnostics archived to bpch format
• ObsPack diagnostic
• Planeflight diagnostic
• Archiving diagnostics from HEMCO
• Diagnostic time step

Validation

• Benchmarking
• Performance

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