GEOS-Chem v8-03-02

Overview

PUBLIC RELEASE -- Spring/Summer 2010

Will contain everything in GEOS-Chem v8-03-01, plus:

1. Terrestrial and deep ocean mercury (N. Smith-Downey, E. Sunderland)
2. APM aerosol microphysics (F. Yu + SUNY Albany group)
3. Updated CO2 simulation (R. Nassar)
4. Liquid water content taken from GEOS-5 met fields (J. Fisher)
5. Wet scavenging by snow

--Bob Y. 10:12, 13 July 2010 (EDT)

Previous issues now resolved in v8-03-02

Patches from v8-03-01

The following bug fix patches are now standardized in v8-03-02:

• Patch to enable call to SOA_PARA_INIT
• Patch to fix declaration of IONIC in ISORROPIA II
• Patch to fix bug in Aromatic SOA
• Patch to scale AOD diagnostic output to other wavelengths

--Bob Y. 12:58, 30 June 2010 (EDT)

Fix for EPA/NEI 2005 emissions

Aaron van Donkelaar submitted updated EPA/NEI05 emissions files in order to fix abnormally low VOC emissions. This fix will be standardized in v8-03-02. Please see this wiki page for more information.

--Bob Y. 15:38, 12 July 2010 (EDT)