README -- Describes contents of HEMCO/CH4/2019-10/ directory
29 Oct 2019
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@as.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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MeMo_CH4uptake_1990-2009.nc

 -- Monthly CH4 soil uptake for 1990-2009 as predicted by the MeMo model

    Resolution  : GEOS-Chem 1 x 1
    Units       : kg/m2/s
    Timestamp   : 1990/01 - 2009/12
    Compression : Level 1 (e.g. nccopy -d1)
    Chunking    : nccopy -c lon/360,lat/180,time/1

MeMo_CH4uptake_Climatology.nc

 -- Monthly climatological CH4 soil uptake computed from monthly 1990-2009
    output from the MeMo model

    Resolution  : GEOS-Chem 1 x 1
    Units       : kg/m2/s
    Timestamp   : 2009/01 - 2009/12
    Compression : Level 1 (e.g. nccopy -d1)
    Chunking    : nccopy -c lon/360,lat/180,time/1

References:
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(1) Murguia-Flores, F., Arndt, S., Ganesan, A. L., Murray-Tortarolo, G., and
    Hornibrook, E. R. C.: Soil Methanotrophy Model (MeMo v1.0): a process-based
    model to quantify global uptake of atmospheric methane by soil, Geosci.
    Model Dev., 11, 2009-2032, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-2009-2018, 2018.