Articles | Volume 11, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3391-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3391-2018
Development and technical paper
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21 Aug 2018
Development and technical paper |  | 21 Aug 2018

Accelerating simulations using REDCHEM_v0.0 for atmospheric chemistry mechanism reduction

Zacharias Marinou Nikolaou, Jyh-Yuan Chen, Yiannis Proestos, Jos Lelieveld, and Rolf Sander

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Chemistry is an important component of the atmosphere that describes many important physical processes. However, atmospheric chemical mechanisms include hundreds of species and reactions, posing a significant computational load. In this work, we use a powerful reduction method in order to develop a computationally faster chemical mechanism from a detailed mechanism. This enables accelerated simulations, which can be used to examine a wider range of processes in increased detail.
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