The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA (GMD/ACP inter-journal SI)(GMD/ACP inter-journal SI)
The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA (GMD/ACP inter-journal SI)(GMD/ACP inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): GMD topic editors | Coordinator: Rolf Sander Special issue jointly organized between Geoscientific Model Development and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
The atmospheric chemistry box modeling system CAABA/MECCA is open-source code published under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The system is based on the box model CAABA (Chemistry As A Boxmodel Application). The chemistry code is provided by the sub-model MECCA (Module Efficiently Calculating the Chemistry of the Atmosphere). Additional sub-models provide the code to calculate photolysis, trajectories, isotope tagging and other features.

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13 Dec 2023
Comprehensive multiphase chlorine chemistry in the box model CAABA/MECCA: implications for atmospheric oxidative capacity
Meghna Soni, Rolf Sander, Lokesh K. Sahu, Domenico Taraborrelli, Pengfei Liu, Ankit Patel, Imran A. Girach, Andrea Pozzer, Sachin S. Gunthe, and Narendra Ojha
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 15165–15180, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15165-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-15165-2023, 2023
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02 Aug 2023
MEXPLORER 1.0.0-rc.0 – A mechanism explorer for analysis and visualization of chemical reaction pathways based on graph theory
Rolf Sander
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1577,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1577, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for GMD (discussion: final response, 5 comments)
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01 Jul 2021
Oxidation of low-molecular-weight organic compounds in cloud droplets: development of the Jülich Aqueous-phase Mechanism of Organic Chemistry (JAMOC) in CAABA/MECCA (version 4.5.0)
Simon Rosanka, Rolf Sander, Andreas Wahner, and Domenico Taraborrelli
Geosci. Model Dev., 14, 4103–4115, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4103-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4103-2021, 2021
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01 Jul 2021
Oxidation of low-molecular-weight organic compounds in cloud droplets: global impact on tropospheric oxidants
Simon Rosanka, Rolf Sander, Bruno Franco, Catherine Wespes, Andreas Wahner, and Domenico Taraborrelli
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 21, 9909–9930, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9909-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-9909-2021, 2021
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05 Apr 2019
The community atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-4.0
Rolf Sander, Andreas Baumgaertner, David Cabrera-Perez, Franziska Frank, Sergey Gromov, Jens-Uwe Grooß, Hartwig Harder, Vincent Huijnen, Patrick Jöckel, Vlassis A. Karydis, Kyle E. Niemeyer, Andrea Pozzer, Hella Riede, Martin G. Schultz, Domenico Taraborrelli, and Sebastian Tauer
Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 1365–1385, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1365-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1365-2019, 2019
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13 Nov 2014
The photolysis module JVAL-14, compatible with the MESSy standard, and the JVal PreProcessor (JVPP)
R. Sander, P. Jöckel, O. Kirner, A. T. Kunert, J. Landgraf, and A. Pozzer
Geosci. Model Dev., 7, 2653–2662, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2653-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-2653-2014, 2014
06 May 2011
The atmospheric chemistry box model CAABA/MECCA-3.0
R. Sander, A. Baumgaertner, S. Gromov, H. Harder, P. Jöckel, A. Kerkweg, D. Kubistin, E. Regelin, H. Riede, A. Sandu, D. Taraborrelli, H. Tost, and Z.-Q. Xie
Geosci. Model Dev., 4, 373–380, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-4-373-2011,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-4-373-2011, 2011
10 Aug 2010
A kinetic chemistry tagging technique and its application to modelling the stable isotopic composition of atmospheric trace gases
S. Gromov, P. Jöckel, R. Sander, and C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer
Geosci. Model Dev., 3, 337–364, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-3-337-2010,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-3-337-2010, 2010
15 Dec 2009
Quantifying atmospheric transport, chemistry, and mixing using a new trajectory-box model and a global atmospheric-chemistry GCM
H. Riede, P. Jöckel, and R. Sander
Geosci. Model Dev., 2, 267–280, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2-267-2009,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2-267-2009, 2009
26 Jan 2006
Technical note: Simulating chemical systems in Fortran90 and Matlab with the Kinetic PreProcessor KPP-2.1
A. Sandu and R. Sander
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 6, 187–195, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-187-2006,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-6-187-2006, 2006
11 Feb 2005
Technical note: The new comprehensive atmospheric chemistry module MECCA
R. Sander, A. Kerkweg, P. Jöckel, and J. Lelieveld
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 445–450, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-445-2005,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-5-445-2005, 2005
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