The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-3.0

Authors

R Sander, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
A Baumgaertner, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
S Gromov, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
H Harder, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
P Jöckel, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
A Kerkweg, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Dagmar Kubistin, Max Planck Institute of ChemistryFollow
E Regelin, Max Planck Institute for ChemistryFollow
H Riede, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Adrian Sandu, Vienna University of TechnologyFollow
D Taraborrelli, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
H Tost, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Zhi Xie, University of Science and Technology of China

RIS ID

91108

Publication Details

Sander, R., Baumgaertner, A., Gromov, S., Harder, H., Jockel, P., Kerkweg, A., Kubistin, D., Regelin, E., Riede, H., Sandu, A., Taraborrelli, D., Tost, H. & Xie, Z. -Q. (2011). The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-3.0. Geoscientific Model Development, 4 (2), 373-380.

Abstract

We present version 3.0 of the atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA. In addition to a complete update of the rate coefficients to the most recent recommendations, a number of new features have been added: chemistry in multiple aerosol size bins; automatic multiple simulations reaching steady-state conditions; Monte-Carlo simulations with randomly varied rate coefficients within their experimental uncertainties; calculations along Lagrangian trajectories; mercury chemistry; more detailed isoprene chemistry; tagging of isotopically labeled species. Further changes have been implemented to make the code more user-friendly and to facilitate the analysis of the model results. Like earlier versions, CAABA/MECCA-3.0 is a community model published under the GNU General Public License.