GenChem v1.0-a chemical pre-processing and testing system for atmospheric modelling
Journal article, 2020
This paper outlines the structure and usage of the GenChem system, which includes a chemical preprocessor GenChem.py) and a simple box model (box-Chem). GenChem provides scripts and input files for converting chemical equations into differential form for use in atmospheric chemical transport models (CTMs) and/or the boxChem system. Although GenChem is primarily intended for users of the Meteorological Synthesizing Centre West of the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (EMEP MSC-W) CTM and related systems, boxChem can be run as a stand-Alone chemical solver, enabling for example easy testing of chemical mechanisms against each other. This paper presents an outline of the usage of the GenChem system, explaining input and output files, and presents some examples of usage. The code needed to run GenChem is released as opensource code under the GNU license.
Author
David Simpson
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
Robert Bergström
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
SMHI
A. Briolat
University of York
Hannah Frostenberg
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
John Johansson
Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing
Michael Priestley
University of Gothenburg
A. Valdebenito
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Geoscientific Model Development
1991-959X (ISSN) 1991-9603 (eISSN)
Vol. 13 12 6447-6465 6447Photochemical Smog in China: Formation, transformation, impact and abatement strategies
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Subject Categories
Embedded Systems
Control Engineering
Computer Science
DOI
10.5194/gmd-13-6447-2020