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The Chemical Mechanism Integrator Cminor v1.0: a stand-alone Fortran environment for the particle-based simulation of chemical multiphase mechanisms
Institute for Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Willi Schimmel
Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Institute for Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Oswald Knoth
Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
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We present the Chemical Mechanism Integrator (Cminor) v1.0, a tool to predict concentrations of chemical compounds undergoing arbitrary reactions. Cminor is an advanced, open-source solver to model either combustion chemistry, or atmospheric chemistry and its direct influence on condensation of cloud droplets and the subsequent processing of aerosol. It uses the superdroplet idea, making it particularly feasible for coupling with such models, which is part of future work.
We present the Chemical Mechanism Integrator (Cminor) v1.0, a tool to predict concentrations of...
