Articles | Volume 10, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2397-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2397-2017
Model description paper
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28 Jun 2017
Model description paper |  | 28 Jun 2017

CHIMERE-2017: from urban to hemispheric chemistry-transport modeling

Sylvain Mailler, Laurent Menut, Dmitry Khvorostyanov, Myrto Valari, Florian Couvidat, Guillaume Siour, Solène Turquety, Régis Briant, Paolo Tuccella, Bertrand Bessagnet, Augustin Colette, Laurent Létinois, Kostantinos Markakis, and Frédérik Meleux

Model code and software

CHIMERE Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Ecole Polytechnique, INERIS, CNRS http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/chimere/

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Short summary
CHIMERE is a chemistry-transport model initially designed for box-modelling of the regional atmospheric composition. In the recent years, CHIMERE has been extended to be able to model atmospheric composition at all scales from urban to hemispheric scale, which implied major changes on the coordinate systems as well as on physical processes. This study describes how and why these changes have been brought to the model, largely increasing the range of its possible use.