This repository includes preprocessing tools for WRF-Chem developed by the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling (ACOM) Laboratory:
mozbc: Creates lateral boundary and initial conditions from global chemistry model output
anthro_emiss: Creates anthropogenic emission files from global emission inventories
epa_anthro_emiss: Creates anthropogenic emission files from Sparse Matrix Operator Kernel (SMOKE) Modeling System netcdf output
bio_emiss: Creates biogenic emission input files for use with MEGAN online emissions
fire_emiss: Creates fire emissions from Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN) input
wesely: Creates netcdf files needed for calculating dry deposition rates (needed when running WRF-Chem with MOZART schemes)
exo_coldens: Creates netcdf files containing overhead O2 and O3 column densities (needed when running WRF-Chem with MOZART schemes)
Please see the individual README files for more information.
Users can click the green 'code' button to see the address for a git clone command, or the option to download a zip file.
E.g. using git a user would issue: git clone git@github.com:NCAR/WRF-Chem-Preprocessing-Tools.git
(see also: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/how-do-i-clone-a-subdirectory-only-of-a-git-repository)
mkdir mozbc
cd mozbc
git init
git remote add -f origin git@github.com:NCAR/WRF-Chem-Preprocessing-Tools.git
git config core.sparseCheckout true
echo "mozbc" >> .git/info/sparse-checkout
git pull origin main
This directory contains User Guides for running WRF-Chem with the suite of MOZART chemical mechanisms, an overview presentation on the preprocessing tools, mozbc guidelines for mapping CESM aersols to WRF-Chem, information on online trajectories and the Integrated Reaction Rate Analysis diagnostics as well as instructions and input data for running WRF-Chem with phot_opt=4 (TUV).
We ask users of the WRF-Chem preprocessor tools to include in any publications the following acknowledgement: "We acknowledge use of the WRF-Chem preprocessor tool {mozbc, fire_emiss, etc.} provided by the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Lab (ACOM) of NCAR."