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Getting Started

  • Quickstart Guide
  • Meet all hardware requirements
  • Meet all software requirements
  • Customize your login environment
  • Key references

GEOS-Chem Classic User Guide

  • Download source code
  • Create a run directory
  • Compile the source code
  • Configure your simulation
  • Download input data
  • Run your simulation
  • View output files
  • Diagnostics reference

GEOS-Chem Simulations

  • Aerosol-only simulation
  • Carbon gases simulation
  • Fullchem simulation
  • Hg (mercury) simulation
  • Metals simulation
  • Tagged O3 simulation
  • TransportTracers simulation

Supplemental guides

  • GEOS-Chem Classic folder tree
  • Sample GEOS-Chem run scripts
  • Load software into your environment
  • Build required software with Spack
  • Customize simulations with research options
  • Understand what error messages mean
  • Debug GEOS-Chem and HEMCO errors
  • Manage a data archive with bashdatacatalog
  • Archive output with the History diagnostics
  • Work with netCDF files
  • Prepare COARDS-compliant netCDF files
  • View GEOS-Chem species properties
  • Parallelize GEOS-Chem and HEMCO source code
  • Run nested-grid simulations
  • Update chemical mechanisms with KPP
  • Use the KPP-Standalone box model to test chemical mechanisms
  • View related documentation

Help & Reference

  • GEOS-Chem version history
  • Known bugs and issues
  • Contributing Guidelines
  • Support Guidelines
  • Editing this User Guide
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