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10.5194/gmd-4-373-2011

The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-3.0

Sander

¹ Baumgaertner

¹ ⁴ Gromov

¹ Harder

¹ Jöckel

¹ ⁵ Kerkweg

¹ ⁶ Kubistin

¹ Regelin

¹ Riede

¹ Sandu

² Taraborrelli

¹ Tost

¹ ⁶ Xie

Z.-Q.

Air Chemistry Department, Max-Planck Institute of Chemistry, P.O. Box 3060, 55020 Mainz, Germany

Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24060, USA

Institute of Polar Environment, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, China

now at: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Project Management Agency, 53227 Bonn, Germany

now at: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82230 Wessling, Germany

now at: Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany

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We present version 3.0 of the atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA. In addition to a complete update of the rate coefficients to the most recent recommendations, a number of new features have been added: chemistry in multiple aerosol size bins; automatic multiple simulations reaching steady-state conditions; Monte-Carlo simulations with randomly varied rate coefficients within their experimental uncertainties; calculations along Lagrangian trajectories; mercury chemistry; more detailed isoprene chemistry; tagging of isotopically labeled species. Further changes have been implemented to make the code more user-friendly and to facilitate the analysis of the model results. Like earlier versions, CAABA/MECCA-3.0 is a community model published under the GNU General Public License.

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