GEOS-Chem 13.3.0

Release date: 15 Nov 2021

This is a minor version release featuring the following updates:

• Chemistry mechanism updates
• Heterogeneous chemistry updates
• Emissions updates (NEI2016 as an option)
• Diagnostic updates
• GCHP adjoint updates

See the GEOS-Chem 13.3.0 page for a complete list of updates.

What's Changed

• Minor update in the deposition menu in input.geos. by @joeylamcy in #636
• Add script for interactively running integration tests (for usage on aws) by @laestrada in #894
• Clean up heterogenous chemistry rate-law functions -- excluding sulfur chemistry updates to KPP by @yantosca in #897
• HMS Chemistry, adding updates of Moch et al 2020 (replaces PR #456) by @yantosca in #905
• Add C2H2 + C2H4 chemistry from Kelvin Bates plus CH3O2 + OH reaction (implemented by Mike Long) by @msl3v in #904
• Fix typo in CloudHet functions: Use MIN instead of MAX for ff by @yantosca in #912
• Revise N2O5 gamma calculation by @yantosca in #913
• ClNO2 + {SALACL,SALCCL,HCL} hetchem rxns should yield HNO2, not HNO3 by @yantosca in #914
• Meng offline dust by @YanshunLi-washu in #816
• Add advected species wildcard for ObsPack diagnostics + point to SAMPLE_BCs/v2021-09 folder by @yantosca in #922
• NEI2016 emissions by @msulprizio in #920
• Update volcano emissions to May 2020 by @msulprizio in #921
• Update IONO2 hydrolysis following Wang et al 2021 (supersedes PR #719) by @yantosca in #923
• Updates for aromatic chem per Kelvin Bates - MSL by @msl3v in #919
• Include PET number in error messages if using ESMF by @lizziel in #925
• Fix typos for NEI in GCHP's HISTORY.rc following 13.3.0-alpha.8 update by @msulprizio in #927
• Integration test bug fixes: (1) nested-grid int tests; (2) run directory naming by @yantosca in #929
• Updated aerosol dry deposition by @msulprizio in #658
• Updating adjoint code with bug fixes and accounting for structural changes by @TerribleNews in #797
• Fix registering species-based quantities in state_chm_mod.F90 by @yantosca in #942
• Fix numerical issues that halted GCHP benchmark simulations (closes geoschem/gchp #170) by @yantosca in #985

New Contributors

• @joeylamcy made their first contribution in #636
• @msl3v made their first contribution in #904
• @YanshunLi-washu made their first contribution in #816

Full Changelog: 13.2.1...13.3.0