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Simulation of Aerosols and Chemistry with a Unified Global ModelThis project is to continue the development of the global simulation capabilities of tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry and aerosols in a unified global model. This is a part of our overall investigation of aerosol-chemistry-climate interaction. In the past year, we have enabled the tropospheric chemistry simulations based on the GEOS-CHEM model, and added stratospheric chemical reactions into the GEOS-CHEM such that a globally unified troposphere-stratosphere chemistry and transport can be simulated consistently without any simplifications. The tropospheric chemical mechanism in the GEOS-CHEM includes 80 species and 150 reactions. 24 tracers are transported, including O3, NOx, total nitrogen (NOy), H2O2, CO, and several types of hydrocarbon. The chemical solver used in the GEOS-CHEM model is a highly accurate sparse-matrix vectorized Gear solver (SMVGEAR). The stratospheric chemical mechanism includes an additional approximately 100 reactions and photolysis processes. Because of the large number of total chemical reactions and photolysis processes and very different photochemical regimes involved in the unified simulation, the model demands significant computer resources that are currently not practical. Therefore, several improvements will be taken, such as massive parallelization, code optimization, or selecting a faster solver. We have also continued aerosol simulation (including sulfate, dust, black carbon, organic carbon, and sea-salt) in the global model to cover most of year 2002. These results have been made available to many groups worldwide and accessible from the website http://code916.gsfc.nasa.gov/People/Chin/aot.html.
Document ID
20050192465
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Chin, Mian
(Georgia Tech Research Inst. Atlanta, GA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Report/Patent Number
G-35-B58
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-13462
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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