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[FEATURE REQUEST] Define properties for all GEOS-Chem species in the species database #110

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msulprizio opened this issue Oct 24, 2019 · 4 comments
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The species database in GEOS-Chem currently primarily includes definitions of advected species. Many chemical species defined in KPP are not includes and are therefore assigned a molecular weight of -1. Daniel Jacob has suggested the following:

Assign molecular weights to all non-transported species. That some are proxies/lumped should not be a limitation – we can just assume MWs for them, and as long as we’re consistent from version to version that would be fine. Kelvin Bates could give you MWs for all these species.

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yantosca commented Jan 2, 2020

This is now slated for 12.8.0.

@msulprizio msulprizio modified the milestones: 12.8.0, 12.9.0 Mar 17, 2020
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This is now slated for 12.9.0. In gcpy, we have converted to species database in YAML format and will ideally be reading this into GEOS-Chem instead of having the species database in Fortran. It makes more sense to add the species database updates listed here to the .yml file instead of to the much more cumbersome species_database_mod.F90.

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msulprizio commented Apr 15, 2020

A new file species_database.yml has been added to the feature/SpeciesDatabase_YAML branch. See https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/blob/feature/SpeciesDatabase_YAML/Headers/species_database.yml.

This first draft has been sent to Kelvin Bates and the Chemistry Working Group leaders for assistance in filling in missing molecular weights for some chemical species defined in KPP.

The updated species database may not officially be implemented until GEOS-Chem 13.0.0 because the Fortran-YAML package may rely on the new directory structure in GEOS-Chem that allows us to access common external libraries. See #216 for discussion on that progress.

@msulprizio msulprizio changed the title [FEATURE REQUEST] Define all GEOS-Chem species in species_database_mod.F90 [FEATURE REQUEST] Define properties for all GEOS-Chem species in the species database Apr 15, 2020
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This is now complete in the feature/SpeciesDatabase_YAML branch and will be included in 12.9.0.

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