Articles | Volume 14, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-907-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-907-2021
Model description paper
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12 Feb 2021
Model description paper |  | 12 Feb 2021

A zero-dimensional view of atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan (LEVCHEM_v1) using numerical chamber simulations

Loredana G. Suciu, Robert J. Griffin, and Caroline A. Masiello

Model code and software

LEVCHEM_v1 model files for Suciu et al. A zero-dimensional view of atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan (LEVCHEM_v1) using numerical chamber simulations Loredana G. Suciu, Robert J. Griffin, and Caroline A. Masiello https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4215973

BOXMOX extension to KPP C. Knote and J. Barré https://boxmodeling.meteo.physik.uni-muenchen.de

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Short summary
Understanding the atmospheric degradation of biomass burning tracers such as levoglucosan is essential to decreasing uncertainties in the role of biomass burning in air quality, carbon cycling and paleoclimate. Using a 0-D modeling approach and numerical chamber simulations, we found that the multiphase atmospheric degradation of levoglucosan occurs over timescales of hours to days, can form secondary organic aerosols and affects other key tropospheric gases, such as ozone.