README -- Describes contents of HEMCO/CH4/2020-02/ directory
18 Apr 2020
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@g.harvard.edu


Overview:
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This directory contains input files for the GEOS-Chem CH4 specialty simulation.

For more information, please see this wiki page:
http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/CH4_simulation


Files:
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GFEI/Global_Fuel_Exploitation_Inventory_Coal.nc
     Global_Fuel_Exploitation_Inventory_Gas_All.nc
     Global_Fuel_Exploitation_Inventory_Oil_All.nc

 -- Global inventory of methane emissions from fuel exploitation at 0.1 x 0.1
    degree resolution.

    Resolution  : 0.1 x 0.1 (3600 x 1800 boxes)
    Units       : molec cm-2 s-2
    Timestamp   : 2016/01/01
    Compression : Level 1 (e.g. nccopy -d1)
    Chunking    : nccopy -c lon/3600,lat/1800,
    Source      : https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HH4EUM

Cl/Cl_XuanWang_2019_ACP.4x5.nc

 -- 3D Clorine fields for 4x5 GEOS-5 grid (47L) Wang, X. et al. (2019).

    Resolution  : 4 x 5 (72 x 47 boxes)
    Levels      : 47
    Units       : ppbv
    Timestamp   : 2005/01 - 2005/12
    Compression : Level 1 (e.g. nccopy -d1)
    Chunking    : nccopy -c lon/72,lat/346,lev/47,time/12


References:
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(1) Scarpelli, T.R., D.J. Jacob, J.D. Maasakkers, M.P. Sulprizio, J.-X. Sheng,
    K. Rose, L. Romeo, J.R. Worden, and G. Janssens-Maenhout, A global gridded
    (0.1 x 0.1) inventory of methane emissions from fuel exploitation based on
    national reports to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
    Change, Earth System Sci. Data, 12, 563-575, 2020.

(2) Wang, X., D.J. Jacob, M.P. Sulprizio, S.D. Eastham, L. Zhu, Q. Chen, B.
    Alexander, T. Sherwen, M.J. Evans, B.H. Lee, J.D. Haskins, F.D.
    Lopez-Hilfike, J.A. Thornton, G.L. Huey, and H. Liao, The role of chlorine
    in global tropospheric chemistry, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 3981-4003, 2019.