GEOS-Chem Nested Model

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Contact information

Regional Air Quality Working Group Co-Chairs	Yuxuan Wang and Jun Wang
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Current Regional Working Group Projects (Please add yours!)

User Group	Description	Funding	Contact Person
Tsinghua	Nested-grid GEOS-Chem model development; Regional air quality over East Asia and interactions with the globe	N/A	Yuxuan Wang
SNU	Regional PM simulations over East Asia	Ministry of Environment in Korea	Rokjin Park
US EPA		N/A	Rob Pinder
U. Tennessee		N/A	Joshua Fu
Nat'l Obs. Athens		N/A	Anna Protonotariou
U. L'Aquila	Buondary conditions to CHIMERE model over Europe, focus on Saharan dust transport.	ASI (Italian Space Agency)	Gabriele Curci
Georgia Tech.		N/A	Tao Zeng
U. Toronto		N/A	Jane Liu
Peking University	Regional air quality in East Asia, Inversion of trace gas emissions using satellite products	N/A	May Fu
Dalhousie U.	Surface PM2.5 retrieval using satellite products	N/A	Aaron van Donkelaar
Dalhousie U.	Nested aerosol microphysics (TOMAS). NOx/ultrafine aerosol concentration relationships. Topographic influence on microphysics	N/A	Jeffrey Pierce
SUNY-Albany	Regional particle formation, evolution, and properties: Nested-grid GEOS-Chem (with APM) simulations and comparisons with measurements		Fangqun Yu
U. Edinburgh	Quantify the impact of boreal biomass burning outflow on tropospheric chemistry over the North Atlantic: Nested grid simulations and evaluation with ground-based, aircraft, and satellite observations		Mark Parrington
Emory University	Improving MISR Aerosol retrieval with GEOS-Chem simulated aerosol composition	NASA	Yang Liu
Peking University	Carbonaceous aerosols in China		May Fu
Peking University	Two-way nesting model for GESO-Chem and impacts on regional air quality and long-range transport		Jintai Lin
CSU	Investigation of inorganic aerosol and role of NH3 during CalNex		Luke Schiferl

On-going Developments

1. Modified for Code.v8-02-01

1). main.f, add following lines after DO_CHEMISTRY in line 941:

         ! check STT (yxw)   
#if   defined( GEOS_5 ) && defined( GRID05x0666 )
            ! Loop over grid boxes
!$OMP PARALLEL DO 
!$OMP+DEFAULT( SHARED )
!$OMP+PRIVATE( I, J, L, N )
            DO N = 1, N_TRACERS
            DO L = 1, LLPAR
            DO J = 1, JJPAR
            DO I = 1, IIPAR
              !---------------------------
              ! Check for Negatives
              !---------------------------
              IF ( STT(I,J,L,N) < 0d0 ) THEN 
!$OMP CRITICAL
                  WRITE( 6, 100 ) I, J, L, N, STT(I,J,L,N)
                  PRINT*, 'Neg STT after chemistry ' // 
     &                   'SET STT TO BE ZERO'
                  STT(I,J,L,N) = 0d0
!$OMP END CRITICAL
              !---------------------------
              ! Check for NaN's
              !---------------------------
              ELSE IF ( IT_IS_NAN( STT(I,J,L,N) ) ) THEN 
!$OMP CRITICAL
                  WRITE( 6, 100 ) I, J, L, N, STT(I,J,L,N)
                  PRINT*, 'NaN STT after chemistry ' //
     &                  'SET STT TO BE LOWER LEVEL'
                  STT(I,J,L,N) = STT(I,J,L-1,N)
!$OMP END CRITICAL
              !----------------------------
              ! Check STT's for Infinities
              !----------------------------
              ELSE IF ( .not. IT_IS_FINITE( STT(I,J,L,N) ) ) THEN
!$OMP CRITICAL
                  WRITE( 6, 100 ) I, J, L, N, STT(I,J,L,N)
                  PRINT*, 'Inf STT after chemistry ' //
     &                  'SET STT TO BE LOWER LEVEL'
                  STT(I,J,L,N) =  STT(I,J,L-1,N)
!$OMP END CRITICAL            

              ENDIF
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
!$OMP END PARALLEL DO
#endif

2). main.f, add following lines after ITS_TIME_FOR_DIAG in line 1021:

         ! Sometimes STT in the stratosphere can be negative at 
         ! the nested-grid domain edges. Force them to be zero before
         ! CHECK_STT (yxw)
#if   defined( GEOS_5 ) && defined( GRID05x0666 )
            ! Loop over grid boxes
!$OMP PARALLEL DO 
!$OMP+DEFAULT( SHARED )
!$OMP+PRIVATE( I, J, L, N )
            DO N = 1, N_TRACERS
            DO L = 1, LLPAR
            DO J = 1, JJPAR
            DO I = 1, IIPAR

              !---------------------------
              ! Check for Negatives
              !---------------------------
              IF ( STT(I,J,L,N) < 0d0 ) THEN
!$OMP CRITICAL
                  WRITE( 6, 100 ) I, J, L, N, STT(I,J,L,N)
                  PRINT*, 'Neg STT after dynamics step ' //
     &             'SET STT TO BE ZERO'
                  STT(I,J,L,N) = 0d0
!$OMP END CRITICAL
              ENDIF
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
            ENDDO
!$OMP END PARALLEL DO
 100  FORMAT( ' STT(',i3,',',i3,',',i3,',',i3,') = ', f13.6 )

#endif

--Wang,Chen, 05:13, 25 June 2009 (EDT) --[[User:Aaron van Donkelaar], March 4, 2010

How to run the 0.5x0.667 nested-grid for GEOS-5

We have moved this discussion to the following wiki pages:

1. GEOS-Chem nested grid simulations
2. Setting up GEOS-Chem nested grid simulations

--Bob Y. 14:07, 15 November 2010 (EST)

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