README -- describes contents of v11-01d/GEOS_FP/RnPbBe
04 Dec 2015
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@as.harvard.edu


This benchmark simulation is GEOS-Chem v11-01d-geosfp-RnPbBe. The following
updates since GEOS-Chem v11-01b-RnPbBe have been applied:

    VERSION | FEATURES INCLUDED                           | APPROVAL DATE
   =======================================================================
    v11-01c   - Updates to PAH code                         14 Sept 2015
              - Hg Ocean MLD bug fixes
              - Hg Ocean rate coefficients
              - Hg Arctic process updates
              - Hg emission updates (NEI2011, NPRI2011,
                UNEP2010 with adjustments for and emission
                controls)
              - Update CO2 files for HEMCO
              - Bug fix for sea salt alkalinity in
                sulfate_mod.F
              - Correct problem in OTD-LIS local
                redistribution files for GEOS-5
              - Bug fixes for the ND21 diagnostic
              - Bug fix for custom nested grid in
                tpcore_bc_mod.F
              - Bug fix for monoterpenes in ND46 diagnostic
              - GEOS-Chem timers
              - Initial modifications for running GEOS-Chem
                with the GMAO MERRA2 reanalysis met field
                product

    v11-01d   - CO2 direct effect on isoprene emissions     TBD
              - Criegee intermediates
              - Update biomass burning emissions to GFED4.1
              - Update implementation of optical properties
                for brown carbon
	      - Species Database Phase 1: Store physical
	        properties of GEOS-Chem species in a
		centralized species database object
              - Resolve very high tracer concentrations
                in MERRA wet deposition
	      - Bug fix for European grid in tagged Ox sim
	      - Fix for reading hourly NEI2011 emissions
	      - Bug fix for PBLTOP and MTTOP values in
	        tagged Ox simulation
              - Parallelization bug fix in online emission
	        of maring POA
	      - Bug fix for offline dust aerosols when UCX
	        is on

This simulation utilized GEOS-FP met fields for the year 2013, with a 4-year
spinup repeating 2013 meteorology.


For more information, please see:

   http://wiki.geos-chem.org/GEOS-Chem_v11-01