MESSy Submodels

Modular Earth Submodel System (MESSy)

MESSy Submodels

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STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Andrea Pozzer pozzer at cyi.ac.cy)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (emission/deposition over oceans)
MAINTAINER:	Andrea Pozzer
ORIGINAL CODE:
DESCRIPTION:	This submodel calculates the deposition and emission over the ocean, using a two layer model. It is important for correcting the global budget of some organic tracers like methanol and acetone. Unlike other emission-deposition submodels, which are related to mono-directional processes, the AIRSEA is bi-directional, i.e. calculates emission or deposition of a tracer depending on its concentration in air and in the ocean surface water.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~pozzer/messy/airsea/

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Holger Tost Holger.Tost at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process
MAINTAINER:	Holger Tost
ORIGINAL CODE:	M. Esch, G. Lenderink, U. Lohmann, E. Roeckner, A. Tompkins, U. Schlese
DESCRIPTION:	This submodule contains the original cloud and cover routines from ECHAM5 in a modularised, MESSy - conform structure and calculates the cloud cover as well as cloud micro-physics including precipitation.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	COLUMN
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~tost/messy/cloud/

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Benedikt Steil Benedikt.Steil at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	diagnostic
MAINTAINER:	Benedikt Steil
ORIGINAL CODE:
DESCRIPTION:	CUBO writes output in netCDF for stations organized as a cuboid. The vertical extension of this cuboid is always the same as the model grid. The horizontal extent can be choosen freely and individually for every station. CUBO puts the station in the center of the choosen horizontal output-plane. The output frequency, which can be choosen independently for every station, need not to be the same as the default setting for the rest of the model. All variables which are stored in submodule streams and variables from standard echam streams gl or g3b can be output. Hybrid coefficients and surface pressure are written out by default.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	-
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	Benedikt.Steil at mpic.de

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Patrick Jöckel Patrick.Joeckel at dlr.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, now DLR Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere
TYPE:	evaluation
MAINTAINER:	Patrick Jöckel
ORIGINAL CODE:	Patrick Jöckel
DESCRIPTION:	The cosmogenic isotope 14C in its early state as 14CO (Carbon Monoxide) provides a natural atmospheric tracer, which is used for the evaluation of the distribution and seasonality of the hydroxyl radical (OH) and/or the strength, localisation, and seasonality of the stratosphere to troposphere exchange (STE) in 3-dimensional global atmospheric chemistry transport models (CTMs) and general circulation models (GCMs).
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL, 3D
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~joeckel/messy/d14co/

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Astrid Kerkweg kerkweg at uni-mainz.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (dry deposition of gas phase tracers and aerosols)
MAINTAINER:	Astrid Kerkweg
ORIGINAL CODE:	Laurens Ganzeveld
DESCRIPTION:	This submodule calculates gas phase and and aerosol tracer dry deposition according to the big leaf approach. This submodule has been derived from a former version of the EMDEP submodel.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	From the project PHOENICS:
	- Philip Stier: aerosol deposition
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~akerkweg/messy/drydep/

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Laurens Ganzeveld laurens.ganzeveld at wur.nl)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (emission + deposition)
MAINTAINER:	Laurens Ganzeveld
ORIGINAL CODE:
DESCRIPTION:	The sub-submodule EMDEP_EMIS contains a variety of subroutines to perform online calculations of emissions and dry deposition. The EMDEP online emissions subroutines include biogenic VOC, NO, DMS, sea-salt, dust, and organic and black carbon emissions.
	The sub-submodule EMDEP_DRYDEP and EMDEP_XTSURF calculate and apply dry deposition velocities for gas-phase and aerosol species following the 'big-leaf'-approach.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	EMDEP_EMIS
	EMDEP_DRYDEP
	EMDEP_XTSURF
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Swen Metzger: restructuring, online emissions in EMDEP_EMIS
	Yves Balkanski: dust emissions
	Ina Tegen: dust emissions
	From the project PHOENICS:
	- Philip Stier: implementation of sea salt, dust, DMS, SO2, BC/OC aerosol emissions in the ECHAM5, aerosol deposition
	- Sylvia Kloster: DMS emission
	- Michael Schulz: sea-salt emissions, dust emissions
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~ganzevl/messy/emdep/

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Swen Metzger Swen.Metzger at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (aerosol multiphase chemistry and physics)
MAINTAINER:	Swen Metzger
ORIGINAL CODE:	Swen Metzger
DESCRIPTION:	The EQuilibrium Simplified Aerosol Module is a computationally efficient gas/aerosol partitioning module that calculates, for a given aerosol mode, the chemical composition of tropospheric aerosols in equilibrium with the ambient air.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~metzger/messy/eqsam/

STATUS:	operational (please acknowledge the submodel maintainer(s))
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (Stratospheric Water Vapour)
MAINTAINER:	Christoph Brühl
ORIGINAL CODE:	Christoph Brühl, Patrick Jöckel
DESCRIPTION:	The H2O submodel defines H2O as a tracer, provides its initialisation in stratosphere and mesosphere from satellite data, and controls the consistent feedback with specific humidity of the base model. This submodel further accounts for the water vapour source of methane oxidation in the stratosphere (and mesosphere), either by using the water vapour tendency of a chemistry submodel (e.g., MECCA1), or by using a satellite climatology (UARS/HALOE) of methane together with monthly climatological conversion rates from a MAECHAM4/CHEM simulation.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~chb/messy/h2o/

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Rolf Sander Rolf.Sander at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (Photolysis rates)
MAINTAINER:	Rolf Sander
ORIGINAL CODE:	Jochen Landgraf, Christoph Brühl, Wilford Zdunkowski
DESCRIPTION:	This submodel is for fast online calculation of J-values (photolysis rate coefficients) using cloud water content and cloudiness calculated by the base model and/or climatological ozone and climatological aerosol. A delta-twostream-method is used for 8 spectral intervals in UV and visible together with pre-calculated effective cross-sections (sometimes temperature and pressure dependent) for more than 50 tropospheric and stratospheric species. If used for the mesosphere, also Ly-alpha radiation is included. Only the photolysis rates for species present are calculated. Optionally, the UV-C solar heating rates by ozone and oxygen are calculated. This submodule has been derived from a preliminary version of the PHOTO submodel.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Patrick Jöckel: ECHAM5/MESSy interface
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL, 3D
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5, BOX
FURTHER INFORMATION:	Rolf.Sander at mpic.de

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Astrid Kerkweg kerkweg at uni-mainz.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
	Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
	Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
TYPE:	process (Aerosol Dynamics)
MAINTAINER:	Astrid Kerkweg
ORIGINAL CODE:	From the project PHOENICS:
	- Julian Wilson, Elisabetta Vignati: original box model
	- Philip Stier: original code and implementation in ECHAM5
DESCRIPTION:	M7 is a dynamical aerosol model that redistributes number and mass between 7 modes and from the gas to the aerosol phase (for each mode), by nucleation, condensation and coagulation.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Swen Metzger: version updates of the original M7 code and box-model
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5, BOX
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~akerkweg/messy/m7/

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Anne Kubin anne.kubin at met.fu-berlin.de)
INSTITUTION:	Free University Berlin
TYPE:	process (Mechanistic Momentum Force)
MAINTAINER:	Anne Kubin
ORIGINAL CODE:	Anne Kubin
DESCRIPTION:	This submodel provides a zonally symmetric mechanistic momentum force acting on the stratosphere. The momentum force is applied above 100 hPa, reaching its full strength above 10 hPa, thus, representing the dynamical part of the 11-year solar signal. It may be used in perpetual-month experiments for January and July, respectively, as well as in transient experiments. The amplitude of the momentum force is controlled by a namelist entry.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Patrick Jöckel: ECHAM5/MESSy interface
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL, 3D
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Katrin Nissen katrin.nissen at met.fu-berlin.de)
INSTITUTION:	Free University of Berlin
TYPE:	process (short wave radiation, heating rates)
MAINTAINER:	Katrin Nissen
ORIGINAL CODE:	U. Langematz, K. Matthes, K. Nissen
DESCRIPTION:	Sub-submodel of RAD4ALL; FUBRad is a high-resolution short-wave heating rate parameterisation for solar variability studies. If switched on it replaces the RAD4ALL radiation at wavelengths most sensitive to solar variability (UV and visible) between the model top and 70 hPa. Elsewhere RAD4ALL is retained.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	COLUMN VECTOR
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	katrin.nissen at met.fu-berlin.de

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Axel Lauer lauera at hawaii.edu)
INSTITUTION:	Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere (DLR)
TYPE:	process (aerosol dynamics)
MAINTAINER:	Axel Lauer
ORIGINAL CODE:	I. Ackermann, et al., University Cologne, Germany (1998)
DESCRIPTION:	MADE is a modal aerosol dynamics model calculating aerosol microphysics taking into account nucleation, condensation, coagulation, and gas-/particle partitioning.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Swen Metzger (EQSAM v03d)
BASIC ENTITY:	BOX
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5, BOX
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/~pa5a/messy/made/

STATUS:	operational (please contact Patrick Jöckel Patrick.Joeckel at dlr.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, now DLR Institute for Physics of the Atmosphere
TYPE:	process (emission of tracers)
MAINTAINER:	Patrick Jöckel
ORIGINAL CODE:	Patrick Jöckel
DESCRIPTION:	This submodel reads emission fluxes in 2D ([molecules/(m2 s)] i.e., surface emissions) and 3D ([molecules/(m3 s)], 'volume emissions', e.g. aircraft emissions) from netCDF-files (via NCREGRID) and updates the tracer tendencies (gridpoint- and Lagrangian) accordingly.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Laurens Ganzeveld: some preliminary code
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	Patrick.Joeckel at dlr.de

STATUS:	beta-test (please contact Christoph Brühl Christoph.Bruehl at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (Photolysis rates)
MAINTAINER:	Christoph Brühl
ORIGINAL CODE:	Jochen Landgraf, Christoph Brühl, Wilford Zdunkowski
DESCRIPTION:	The Photolysis submodel is for fast online calculation of photolysis rates using cloud water content and cloudiness calculated by the base model and/or climatological ozone and climatological aerosol. A delta-twostream-method is used for 8 spectral intervals in UV and visible together with pre-calculated effective cross-sections (sometimes temperature and pressure dependent) for more than 50 tropospheric and stratospheric species. If used for the mesosphere, also Ly-alpha radiation is included. Only the photolysis rates for species present are calculated. Optionally, the UV-C solar heating rates by ozone and oxygen are calculated. See also JVAL for other representations / interfaces.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	Rolf Sander, Patrick Jöckel: ECHAM5/MESSy interface
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL, 3D
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/~chb/messy/photo/

STATUS:	alpha-test (please contact Andreas.Baumgaertner at mpic.de)
INSTITUTION:	Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
TYPE:	process (NOx from space)
MAINTAINER:	Andreas Baumgaertner
ORIGINAL CODE:	Andreas Baumgaertner
DESCRIPTION:	Energetic particles from space produce ionisation and subsequently N and NO in different layers of the atmosphere. This submodel parameterises firstly the effects of galactic cosmic rays in the stratosphere and secondly the downward transport of NO, produced by charged particles in the thermosphere, into the polar winter mesosphere.
SUB-SUBMODELS:	-
CONTRIBUTIONS:	-
BASIC ENTITY:	GLOBAL, 3D
REPRESENTATION:	GRIDPOINT
INTERFACES:	ECHAM5
FURTHER INFORMATION:	Andreas.Baumgaertner at mpic.de