GEOS-Chem model development priorities

On this page we list the current priorities for GEOS-Chem development. This list was compiled by the user Working Groups at the last International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC6) in May 2013 and has been continuously updated since based on code readiness and input from the Working Groups and the Steering Committee.

We also invite you to view our GEOS-Chem Support Team project management board on Trello.com, which shows the current GCST workflow.

List of priorities as of May 2013

Items "Awaiting release" will be part of the next version release of GEOS-Chem and are actively being incorporated into the standard model and benchmarked. Other items are in different stages of readiness and will be included in future versions of the model.

Awaiting release

Item	Author(s)	Status
Correction for GEOS-5 PBL heights	Sajeev Philip (Dalhousie)	Approved 16 Oct 2012 (v9-02a); awaiting release
New soil NOx emission module	Rynda Hudman (UC Berkeley) Neil Moore (Dalhousie) Bram Maasakkers (Eindhoven)	Approved 29 Oct 2012 (v9-02b); awaiting release
EPA/NEI2005 Hg emissions for US	Lyatt Jaeglé (U. Washington)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
Streets future Hg emissions	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
Nested-grid Hg simulation	Lyatt Jaeglé (U. Washington)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
Updated Hg(0) oxidation kinetics	Bess Corbitt (Harvard) Justin Parrella (Harvard)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
Capability to use GEOS-Chem Br/BrO fields in Hg simulation	Bess Corbitt (Harvard) Justin Parrella (Harvard)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
POPs simulation: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	Carey Friedman (MIT)	Approved 29 Nov 2012 (v9-02c); awaiting release
Inorganic chemistry updates	Mat Evans (York)	Approved 07 Feb 2013 (v9-02f); awaiting release
Methyl peroxy nitrate (MPN) chemistry	Ellie Browne (UC Berkeley)	Approved 07 Feb 2013 (v9-02f); awaiting release
Fix RO2+HO2 rate constant	Fabien Paulot (Harvard)	Approved 22 Mar 2013 (v9-02g); awaiting release
Improvements to isoprene chemistry, standardization of Paulot Scheme	Fabien Paulot (Harvard) Eloise Marais (Harvard) Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL) Mat Evans (York)	Approved 22 Mar 2013 (v9-02g); awaiting release
Improved HO2 uptake by aerosol	Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL)	To be included in v9-02
Removal of NOx-Ox partitioning	GEOS-Chem Support Team	To be included in v9-02
Inhibition of N2O5 hydrolysis by aerosol nitrate	Lin Zhang (Peking University)	To be included in v9-02
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Chemistry	GEOS-Chem Support Team GMAO	To be included in v9-02
Inline the TOMAS aerosol microphysics code into standard code	Sal Farina (CSU)	To be included in v9-02
Updated Canadian NH3 inventory	Wai-Ho Lo (Dalhousie)	To be included in v9-02
RCP emission scenarios	Chris Holmes (UC Irvine)	To be included in v9-02
EDGAR v4.2 emissions for CH4 simulation	Kevin Wecht (Harvard)	To be included in v9-02
Update anthropogenic scale factors through 2010	Aaron van Donkelaar (Dalhousie)	To be included in v9-02
Update to EDGAR 4 anthropogenic emissions	Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua) Sajeev Philip (Dalhousie)	To be included in v9-02
Interannual lightning	Lee Murray (Harvard)	To be included in v9-02
AEIC aircraft emissions inventory	Sebastian D. Eastham(MIT) Steven Barret (MIT)	To be included in v9-02
Updated NH3 seasonal scaling factors over the US	Lin Zhang (Peking University)	To be included in v9-02
Expanded SOA	Havala Pye (EPA/ORD)	To be included in v9-02
Acid uptake on dust aerosols	T. Duncan Fairlie (NASA/LARC)	To be included in v9-02
Cloudwater pH for sulfate formation	Becky Alexander (U. Washington)	To be included in v9-02
Update jv_spec.dat with better representation of OC growth with RH and correction to sulfate optics	David Ridley (MIT) Randall Martin (Dalhousie)	To be included in v9-02
Global simulations with GEOS-5 "FP" data product from GMAO	GEOS-Chem Support Team	To be included in v9-02 NOTE: The GEOS-5 "FP" product (aka GEOS-5.9.0) is what we will use for the 0.25° x 0.3125° nested simulations. To run the nested simulations (the 2 items listed below), we also must be able to run the global simulations with this met data product in order to save out transport boundary conditons.
Nested-grid model at 0.25° x 0.3125° resolution	Yuxuan Wang (Tsinghua)	To be included in v9-02
High-resolution emissions for above nested-grid model	Yuxuan Wang (Tsinghua)	To be included in v9-02
Improve temporal resolution of anthropogenic CO2 sources	Ray Nassar (Environment Canada)	To be included in v9-02
Replace CASA CO2 biosphere climatology with year-specific fluxes	Ray Nassar (Environment Canada) Dylan Jones (U. Toronto)	To be included in v9-02 Ray Nassar wrote: SiB Fluxes are available to replace the old CASA fluxes, courtesy of Janina Messerschmidt et al. New CASA fluxes would also be good, such that the user can select options in the input.geos file.
Online PBL height calculation	Sajeev Philip (Dalhousie) Erica McGrath-Spangler(NASA GSFC)	To be included in v9-02

--Melissa Payer 16:52, 14 May 2013 (EDT)

Ready to go in

Item	Author(s)	Status
Update to MEGAN2.1	Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota)
UNEP 2010 anthropogenic Hg emissions	Shaojie Song (MIT)
Historical anthropogenic atmospheric emissions of Hg	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
Subsurface ocean Hg concentration update	Anne Soerensen (Harvard)
NEI 2008 Hg emission inventory	Yanxu Zhang (Harvard)
NEI 2008 emissions with hourly resolution	Katie Travis (Harvard)
CO2 direct effect on isoprene emissions	Amos Tai (MIT)
PAN/organics	Emily Fischer (Harvard)
Arctic Hg cycling	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
Criegee intermediate	Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota)
VBS SOA option	Rokjin Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Other organics	Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota)
Tagged sulfate and nitrate simulation	Becky Alexander (U. Washington)

--Melissa Payer 16:41, 14 May 2013 (EDT)

Almost there (< 6 months)

Item	Author(s)	Status
Coupling to 3D ocean: OFFTRACK	Yanxu Zhang (Harvard)
Dry deposition updates for Hg simulation	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
New Hg soil emissions standard from offline GTMM	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
Pre- and online processing of emissions	Qiang Zhang (Tsinghua) Christoph Keller (Harvard)
MASAGE NH3 emissions	Fabien Paulot (Harvard)
Benchmark procedure for nested model	Nested Model Working Group
Online GCRT	David Ridley (MIT) Colette Heald (MIT)
TOMAS parallelization	Sal Farina (CSU) Jeff Pierce (CSU)
Reduced TOMAS (12/15 bins)	Sal Farina (CSU) Jeff Pierce (CSU)
APM v2, synch with v9-02	Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany)
Retain native resolution 2D surface winds	David Ridley (MIT) GEOS-Chem Support Team
FLEXCHEM	Mat Evans (York) Mike Long (Harvard)
Develop new coding standards	GEOS-Chem Support Team
Unit testing	GEOS-Chem Support Team
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Dry deposition	GEOS-Chem Support Team GMAO
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Emissions	Christoph Keller (Harvard) GEOS-Chem Support Team GMAO
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: NetCDF I/O	GEOS-Chem Support Team
CMS CO2 ocean fluxes	Kevin Bowman (JPL)
WHOI CO2 ocean fluxes	Andrew Schuh (CSU)
Dynamic subsurface ocean	Helen Amos (Harvard)
Updates to PAH code	Carey Friedman (MIT) Helen Amos (Harvard)
Fast-JX	Sebastian Eastham (MIT) Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL)
Fix for CH4 concentrations after 2008	Lee Murray (Harvard)
Two-way nested grid simulation	Jintai Lin (Peking)
Sub-domain within the nested-grid domain	Yuxuan Wang (Tsinghua) Jintai Lin (Peking)
Offline satellite simulator tool	Nested Model Working Group
Metal catalyzed oxidation of SO2	Becky Alexander (U. Washington)
Sulfate production on aerosol haze	Yuxuan Wang (Tsinghua) Rokjin Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Diurnal variation of NH3 emissions	Daven Henze (UC Boulder)
Impaction scavenging for hydrophobic BC	Qiaoqiao Wang (Harvard)
Homogeneous IN removal	Qiaoqiao Wang (Harvard)
Time-varying Arctic parameterizations	Jenny Fischer (Wollongong)
Future US emissions inventories of Hg	Amanda Giang (MIT)
Coastal inputs of Hg: Rivers and anthropogenic point sources	Helen Amos (Harvard)
Complete revamp of GTMM	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
Dust PDF for global simulations	David Ridley (MIT)
Stratospheric aerosols	Sebastian Eastham (MIT)
Benchmark for aerosol deposition	Aerosols Working Group

--Melissa Payer 16:41, 14 May 2013 (EDT)

Over the horizon (6-12 months)

Item	Author(s)	Status
Updates to redox chemistry for Hg simulation	Bess Corbitt (Harvard)
High-resolution regional emissions	Nested Model Working Group
Flexible diagnostic package	GEOS-Chem Support Team
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Convection	TBD	GCST needs help from community
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Wet scavenging	TBD	GCST needs help from community
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: PBL mixing	TBD	GCST needs help from community
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Transport	TBD	GCST needs help from community
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Packaging ESMF/MAPL	GEOS-Chem Support Team GMAO
3D VOC source for tagged CO simulation and enhanced tagging of secondary CO	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)
Satellite diagnostic for XCO2	Andrew Schuh (CSU)
DMS chemistry	Tom Breider (Harvard)
Dynamic precision	GEOS-Chem Support Team
Profiling GEOS-Chem	TBD
Methylmercury in the surface ocean	Anne Soerensen (Harvard)
Primary marine emissions of OA	Brett Gantt (NCSU)
Recommendations for optimal timesteps	Sajeev Philip (Dalhousie)
DMS oxidation scheme updating (DMSO, oxidation by BrO)	Tom Breider (Harvard) Becky Alexander (U. Washington)
Criegee intermediates for sulfuric acid	Dylan Millet (U. Minnesota) Mat Evans (York)
More options for terrestrial CO2 fluxes	Kevin Bowman (JPL)
FINN biomass burning emissions	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)

--Melissa Payer 16:41, 14 May 2013 (EDT)

Longer term (12-24 months)

Item	Author(s)	Status
Coupling to 3D ocean: MIT ocean GCM	Yanxu Zhang (Harvard)
Python interface	Benoît Bovy (U. Liège-Belgium)
Uniformity of units	GEOS-Chem Support Team
Historical inventory of Hg in products and processes	Hannah Horowitz (Harvard)
Better link/coupling to ocean processes	Chemistry-Climate Working Group
Better coupling to biogeochemical cycles	Chemistry-Climate Working Group
Chemistry feedbacks to vegetation ecosystem	Amos Tai (MIT)
Stratospheric chemistry	Sebastian Eastham (MIT)
Iodine chemistry	Tomás Sherwen (York)
Harmonization of aerosol optics (including water uptake)	David Ridley(MIT) Colette Heald (MIT) Peter Adams (Carnegie Mellon) Fangqun Yu (SUNY Albany) Gabriele Curci (U. L'Aquila) Randall Martin (Dalhousie)
Grid-independent GEOS-Chem: Ocean interface	Yanxu Zhang (Harvard)
Updated LAI	Kevin Bowman (JPL) Folkert Boersma (KNMI)
Merge dicarbonyl simulation into standard simulation	Tzung-May Fu (Peking)
Global 0.5x0.667 capability for CO2/CH4	Liang Feng (Edinburgh) Dylan Jones (U. Toronto)
Dynamic multiple boxes subsurface Arctic Ocean	Helen Amos (Harvard) Anne Soerensen (Harvard)
PCB simulation: atmosphere and ocean	Carey Friedman (MIT) Helen Amos (Harvard)
Nighttime isoprene chemistry	Rebecca Schwantes (Caltech)
ClNO2	Mat Evans (York)
Dissolved Fe/Cu	Matthew Johnson (NCSU) Jingqiu Mao (NOAA/GFDL)
UV absorption of organics/brown carbon	Rokjin Park (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
CO-CO2-CH4 simulation	Dylan Jones (U. Toronto) Annemarie Fraser (Edinburgh)
Updated HCN simulation	Dylan Jones (U. Toronto)
Passive tracer module	Jenny Fisher (Wollongong)

--Melissa Payer 16:41, 14 May 2013 (EDT)