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Description
When boundary conditions are provided from a source that omits particle number concentration, the current model will detect the default concentrations (1.0E-30) as acceptable. This creates physically unrealistic size distributions at the boundaries, which lead to negative aerosol concentrations when operated on by processes like aerosol sedimentation. Collaborators and users have reported FLOOR files indicating these problems when using boundary conditions from sources like GEOSChem.
With this update, the lower bound is raised to 1.1E-30 which should be able to detect missing boundary concentration data in most cases. The aerosol mode variables (Number and Second Moment) are reset to values that are consistent with realistic size distributions, negative concentrations are resolved, and FLOOR files are no longer generated.
Thank you to colleagues at the California Air Resources Board for identifying and characterizing this problem.
Scope and Impact
The update is needed urgently for any runs performed with GEOSChem boundary conditions, especially if particle predictions are an output of interest. There should be minimal impact on ozone concentrations.
There is no impact on simulations run with Hemispheric CMAQ boundary conditions, which include particle number and surface are variables on the boundary condition input files.
Solution
A permanent solution will be proposed via Pull Request to this repository. Temporarily, you may resolve this problem by doing the following: in AERO_DATA.F, change the following lines:
IF ( M3DRY .LT. 1.0e-30 .OR. M3WET .LT. 1.0e-30 ) THEN
...
ELSE IF ( NUM .LT. 1.0e-30 ) THEN
...
ELSE IF ( M2 .LT. 1.0e-30 .OR. .NOT. USE_M2 ) THEN
to
IF ( M3DRY .LT. 1.1e-30 .OR. M3WET .LT. 1.1e-30 ) THEN
...
ELSE IF ( NUM .LT. 1.1e-30 ) THEN
...
ELSE IF ( M2 .LT. 1.1e-30 .OR. .NOT. USE_M2 ) THEN
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Description
When boundary conditions are provided from a source that omits particle number concentration, the current model will detect the default concentrations (1.0E-30) as acceptable. This creates physically unrealistic size distributions at the boundaries, which lead to negative aerosol concentrations when operated on by processes like aerosol sedimentation. Collaborators and users have reported FLOOR files indicating these problems when using boundary conditions from sources like GEOSChem.
With this update, the lower bound is raised to 1.1E-30 which should be able to detect missing boundary concentration data in most cases. The aerosol mode variables (Number and Second Moment) are reset to values that are consistent with realistic size distributions, negative concentrations are resolved, and FLOOR files are no longer generated.
Thank you to colleagues at the California Air Resources Board for identifying and characterizing this problem.
Scope and Impact
The update is needed urgently for any runs performed with GEOSChem boundary conditions, especially if particle predictions are an output of interest. There should be minimal impact on ozone concentrations.
There is no impact on simulations run with Hemispheric CMAQ boundary conditions, which include particle number and surface are variables on the boundary condition input files.
Solution
A permanent solution will be proposed via Pull Request to this repository. Temporarily, you may resolve this problem by doing the following: in AERO_DATA.F, change the following lines:
to
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: