README -- describes contents of GEOS_2x2.5/mercury_201110
10 Nov 2011
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@g.harvard.edu


File list:
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soilHg.102311.preind.bpch     :  File containing soil concentrations of mercury
                                 from the preindustrial which are consistent
                                 with the emissions and chemical mechanism in
                                 v9-01-02. These are created using the
                                 methodology of Selin et al., 2008.


soilHg.102311.presentday.bpch :  File containing soil concentrations of mercury
                                 for the present-day which are consistent with
                                 the chemical mechanism in v9-01-02 and the
                                 2005 GEIA emissions inventory, using the
                                 methodology of Selin et al., 2008.


References:
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Selin, N.E., D.J. Jacob, R.M. Yantosca, S. Strode, L. Jaegle, and E.M.
 Sunderland, Global 3-D land-ocean-atmosphere model for mercury: present-day
 vs. pre-industrial cycles and anthropogenic enrichment factors for deposition,
 Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB2011, doi:10.1029/2007GB003040, 2008.


For more information about the soil emissions and instructions on how to create
new soil distribution files, please see our wiki page:

  http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/Mercury#Soil_Emissions