README -- describes the contents of bromine_201205 directory
23 Jul 2012
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@g.harvard.edu

Overview:
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Stratospheric Bry is treated as an upper boundary condition above the local
model troposphere. These data are read in strat_chem_mod.F90.


Files in the CCM_stratosphere_Bry/ directory:
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Bry_Stratosphere_day.bpch.geos4.2x25
Bry_Stratosphere_day.bpch.geos5.2x25
Bry_Stratosphere_day.bpch.merra.2x25
  -- Monthly mean daytime concentrations of Bry species in the stratosphere. 
     Stored by Liang et al. (2012) using the GEOS-5 CCM.

Bry_Stratosphere_night.bpch.geos4.2x25
Bry_Stratosphere_night.bpch.geos5.2x25
Bry_Stratosphere_night.bpch.merra.2x25
  -- Monthly mean nighttime concentrations of Bry species in the stratosphere.
     Stored by Liang et al. (2012) using the GEOS-5 CCM.


References:
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Liang, Q., Stolarski, R. S., Kawa, S. R., Nielsen, J. E., Douglass, A. R.,
Rodriguez, J. M., Blake, D. R., Atlas, E. L., and Ott, L. E.: Finding the
missing stratospheric Bry: a global modeling study of CHBr3 and CH2Br2, Atmos.
Chem. Phys., 10, 2269--2286, 2010.

Parrella, J.P., D.J. Jacob, Q. Liang, Y. Zhang, L.J. Mickley, B. Miller, M.J.
Evans, X. Yang, J.A. Pyle, N. Theys, and M. Van Roozendael, Tropospheric
bromine chemistry: implications for present and pre-industrial ozone and
mercury, submitted to Atmos. Chem. Phys., 2012.