Articles | Volume 18, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9039-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-9039-2025
Model description paper
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26 Nov 2025
Model description paper |  | 26 Nov 2025

The Chemical Mechanism Integrator Cminor v1.0: a stand-alone Fortran environment for the particle-based simulation of chemical multiphase mechanisms

Levin Rug, Willi Schimmel, Fabian Hoffmann, and Oswald Knoth

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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.
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