Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-661-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-661-2021
Development and technical paper
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02 Feb 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 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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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.
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