Methane chemistry in a nutshell – the new submodels CH4 (v1.0) and TRSYNC (v1.0) in MESSy (v2.54.0)

Winterstein, Franziska; Jöckel, Patrick

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-661-2021

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02 Feb 2021

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| 02 Feb 2021

Methane chemistry in a nutshell – the new submodels CH4 (v1.0) and TRSYNC (v1.0) in MESSy (v2.54.0)

Franziska Winterstein and Patrick Jöckel

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RC1: 'Methane chemistry in a nutshell – The new submodels CH4 (v1.0) and TRSYNC (v1.0) in MESSy (v2.54.0) , Winterstein and Joeckel, GMD-2020-137.', Anonymous Referee #1, 10 Aug 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to RC1', F. Winterstein, 26 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Referee comment on gmd-2020-137: Methane chemistry in a nutshell – The new submodels CH4 (v1.0) and TRSYNC (v1.0) in MESSy (v2.54.0)', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 Sep 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to RC2', F. Winterstein, 26 Oct 2020

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AR by F. Winterstein on behalf of the Authors (05 Nov 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (30 Nov 2020) by Fiona O'Connor

AR by F. Winterstein on behalf of the Authors (04 Dec 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Atmospheric methane is currently a hot topic in climate research. This is partly due to its chemically active nature. We introduce a simplified approach to simulate methane in climate models to enable large sensitivity studies by reducing computational cost but including the crucial feedback of methane on stratospheric water vapour. We further provide options to simulate the isotopic content of methane and to generate output for an inverse optimization technique for emission estimation.