README -- describes contents of v11-02f/Run0
15 May 2018
GEOS-Chem Support Team
geos-chem-support@as.harvard.edu


This benchmark simulation is GEOS-Chem v11-02f-Run0. The following
updates since GEOS-Chem v11-02e-Run1 have been applied:

    VERSION        | FEATURES INCLUDED
   ================+========================================================
    v11-02f-Run0   | Features affcting the full-chemistry benchmark
                   |  
		   | (1 ) Update HEMCO from v2.1.001 to v2.1.005
                   | (2 ) Use global 0.25x0.25 files for MEGAN input 
                   |       and MODIS LAI
                   | (3 ) Update lightning BETA values and OTD/LIS files 
                   |       for consistency with latest met fields
                   | (4 ) CEDS global anthropogenic emissions (1950-2014)
                   | (5 ) EDGAR v4.3.1 emissions
                   | (6 ) Use 1x1 GEIA NH3 emissions
                   | (7 ) Historical Canadian emissions
                   | (8 ) Global ethane emissions
                   | (9 ) Inefficient combustion emissions in Africa 
		   |       (DICE-Africa inventory)
                   | (10) Trash burning emissions
                   | (11) Update GFED4 emission factors
                   | (12) Retire GFED3 biomass burning emissions
                   | (13) Ammonia emissions from Arctic seabirds
                   | (14) Restore use of prod/loss rates from GMI in 
                   |      the mesosphere for UCX-based simulations
                   | (15) Fix bug in units of UCX prod/loss rates
                   | (16) Add fix for UCX mesospheric NOy routine
                   | (17) Fix Henry's Law parameters for HCl
                   | (18) Fix for N2O5 uptake
		   | (19) Add fix for organic nitrate chemistry
		   |
		   | Features NOT affecting the full-chemistry benchmark
		   | 
                   | (20) Updated CH4 simulation
                   | (21) Updated Tagged CO simulation
                   | (22) Updated Hg simulation (cf. Horowitz et al 2017)
                   | (23) Change default timestep for MERRA-2 nested grid sims
                   | (24) Fix bug in biomass emissions when GFED is turned off
                   | (25) Fix missing HCOOH factors for RCP in HEMCO_Config.rc
                   | (26) Fix bug in calculation of L(Ox) for tagged Ox sims
                   | (27) Change tolerance value as a temporary fix for
                   |       convergence errors in 2 x 2.5 tropchem sims
                   | (28) Fix compatibility issue with ifort 17.0.4

 
This benchmark simulation uses the standard chemistry mechanism (i.e. tropchem
+ UCX + SOA + halogens ) and 72 vertical levels.

For more information, please see:

   http://wiki.geos-chem.org/GEOS-Chem_v11-02