The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-3.0
We present version 3.0 of the atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA. In addition to a complete update of the rate coefficients to the most recent recommendations, a number of new features have been added: chemistry in multiple aerosol size bins; automatic multiple simulations reaching stea...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2011-05-01
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Series: | Geoscientific Model Development |
Online Access: | http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/4/373/2011/gmd-4-373-2011.pdf |
Summary: | We present version 3.0 of the atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA. In addition to a complete update of the rate coefficients to the most recent recommendations, a number of new features have been added: chemistry in multiple aerosol size bins; automatic multiple simulations reaching steady-state conditions; Monte-Carlo simulations with randomly varied rate coefficients within their experimental uncertainties; calculations along Lagrangian trajectories; mercury chemistry; more detailed isoprene chemistry; tagging of isotopically labeled species. Further changes have been implemented to make the code more user-friendly and to facilitate the analysis of the model results. Like earlier versions, CAABA/MECCA-3.0 is a community model published under the GNU General Public License. |
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ISSN: | 1991-959X 1991-9603 |