GEOS-Chem 12.4.0

GEOS-Chem 12.4.0
Released 05 Aug 2019

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Contains the following updates:
(1) Grid-independent dust emissions (hourly)
(2) Grid-independent lightning NOx emissions (3-hourly)
(3) Grid-independent biogenic emissions (hourly)
(4) Grid-independent sea salt emissions (hourly)
(5) Grid-independent soil NOx emissions (hourly)
(6) Updated volcano emissions (1978-2019)
(7) Bug fix: Rebuild chemical mechanisms for FAST-JX fix added in 12.3.2
(8) FlexGrid Stage 2: Add capability to define custom grids
(9) Add photolysis menu to input.geos for specifying FAST-JX directory

For more information about this release. please see:
http://wiki.geos-chem.org/GEOS-Chem_12#12.4.0

To view the benchmark evaluation plots, please see:
http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/Benchmark/GEOS-Chem_12.4.0

Read the GEOS-Chem online manual at:
http://manual.geos-chem.org

This release is compatible with GCHP. See the GCHP online manual for more information:
http://wiki.geos-chem.org/Getting_Started_With_GCHP

Learn how you can run GEOS-Chem on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform:
http://cloud.geos-chem.org