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2013 TropIsop/CheT + GLOMAP (Co-ordinator: Graham Mann)

Release candidate	Chemistry	Aerosol	Owner	UM version	Monsoon job ID	Met Office ID	Link to evaluation suite	Comments
			Andy	8.2	N/A	amogs	None at present	GA4 N96L85 using TropIsop + aerosol chemistry + GLOMAP-mode, with plume scavenging of aerosol tracers.
RC1			Mohit/ Andy	8.4	xhmah	amtjn	UKCA_GA4.pdf Tropospheric aerosol evaluation for amtjn	GA4 N96L85 TropIsop(CheT)+GLOMAP+RADAERv2+Activate. Dynmamic Rainout;Aerosol in Plume scavenging;Lightning NOx improvements (halved). Sea-salt too high in the stratosphere.
RC2			Mohit	8.4	xhmai	None at present	xhmai_TropChemEval Tropospheric aerosol evaluation for xhmai	cp XHMAH + Aerosol initialised using data from N48L60 Pinatubo control run (XHNAP). Chemistry rates have not been updated to latest values.
RC3			Mohit	8.4	None at present	ajkzh	TropChemEval_Year1 TropChemEval_Year4	cp XHMAI; Reaction rates updated.
RC4			Mohit	8.4	None at present	ajkzi	ajkzi_TropChemEval	cp XHMAI; Reaction rates updated; Liss-Merlivat for DMS air-sea exch flux.

2013 StratTropIsop/CheST (Co-ordinator: Luke Abraham)

Release candidate	Chemistry	Aerosol	Owner	UM version	Monsoon job ID	Met Office ID	Link to evaluation suite	Comments
RC1			Luke	8.2	xhkld	amekf	Xhkld_eval.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. NOy problems persist in this version. OH not good either. LiNOx in this job = 1.11408 Tg(N)/year. 11-year spin-up with analysis performed on the 12th year.
RC2			Luke	8.2	xhklk	N/A	Xhklk_eval.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. This is a slightly updated version of xhkld, but with the RCP scenario added and the HOx recycling (and a minor change to the bit-comparability fix) added. This is configured for 2000/01/01 conditions (WMOA1b) and is initialised to UKCA fields from Alex's vn7.3 xgywn CheST job. The chemistry is identical between xgywn and xhklk. LiNOx in this job = 1.16781 Tg(N)/year. 2-year job from initial conditions, analysis performed on the 2nd year (hence poor age of air).
RC3			Luke	8.2	xhkll	N/A	Xhkll_eval.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. Same as xhklk, but with the updated Lightning NOx routines from UKMO. LiNOx in this job = 11.57956 Tg(N)/year. 2-year job from initial conditions, analysis performed on the 2nd year (hence poor age of air).
RC4			Luke	8.2	xhklm	N/A	Xhklm_eval.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. Same as xhklk, but with the Cambridge Lightning NOx routines. LiNOx in this job = 9.11675 Tg(N)/year. 2-year job from initial conditions, analysis performed on the 2nd year (hence poor age of air).
RC5			Luke	8.2	xhkln	N/A	Xhkln_eval_yr2.pdf Xhkln_eval_yr10.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. Same as xhklk, but setting P_no in ukca_light.F90 to half its original value. Updates/bugfix to asad_trimol.F90 to see if this improves NOy. LiNOx in this job = 5.69851 Tg(N)/year. Job sent off for a 10-year run.
RC6			Luke	8.2	xhkls	N/A	Xhkls_eval_yr10.pdf	GA4.0+FastJX. Same as xhkln, but with NOy lumped into HONO2 rather than NO2. No significant change from xhkln.
RC7			Fiona	8.2	N/A	amekf	amekf_eval.pdf	Base job - GA4.0, updated rxn rates, Fast-JX, low lightning, some bugfixes. Same as RC1 above but initialised in Sept 1981 and evaluation based on years 2007/08.
RC8			Fiona	8.2	N/A	ameku	ameku_eval.pdf	Base job but with old rxn rates. Initialised from amekf in Sept 2006 and evaluation based on years 2007/08. Methane lifetime much shorter (8.01 yr) than in amekf (10.5 yr). Strat HNO3 marginally worse in ameku than amekf. Updated rates not cause of poor stratospheric HNO3.
RC9			Fiona	8.2	N/A	amekv	amekv_eval.pdf	Base job but with vn7.3 Fast-JX routines. Initialised from amekf in Sept 2006 and evaluation based on years 2007/08. Gives extremely similar results to amekf (RC7) in terms of o3 budget, global mean OH, CH4 lifetime, and strat HNO3. No other major bug with Fast-JX at UMvn8.2 apart from that fixed in vn8.2_bugfix_fastjx_sphere.
RC10			Fiona	8.2	N/A	amekw	eval_amekw.pdf	Base job but with qpos for tracers set to 'local' - same as in UMvn7.3. Significant difference in runtime. Meteorology will be different due to qpos setting affecting aerosols. Strat HNO3 still poor.
RC11			Fiona	8.2	N/A	amekx	amekx_eval.pdf	Base job but with updated lightning NOx routines. Mean global lightning emissions for 2007/08 is 8.26 TgN/year. Strat HNO3 improved but still poor. Global mean OH increased. Tropospheric methane lifetime much shorter (7.92 yr) than in amekf (10.5 yr). Tropospheric CO improved but still biased high in SH. Tropospheric O3 improved.
RC12			Fiona	8.2	N/A	ameky	ameky_eval.pdf	Base job but with stratospheric water vapour above 19km as seen by the chemistry set to 3.8 ppmv. No major impact in troposphere. Strat HNO3 largely unchanged. Little impact on other stratospheric species.

2013 StratTropIsop/CheST + GLOMAP (Co-ordinator: )

Release candidate	Chemistry	Aerosol	Owner	UM version	Monsoon job ID	Met Office ID	Link to evaluation suite	Comments
				8.4	N/A	anenu	None at present	GA5 (ENDGAME) Includes plume scavenging of soluble aerosol tracers. Being assessed for tropospheric aerosol.
RC1			Mohit	8.4	xhmaj	anenj	None at present	GA4.0 (ND) N96L85, PlumeScav; Radv2; Act; Aerosol init (xhnap)