UKCA Chemistry and Aerosol Tutorials: Background Motivation

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These UKCA tutorials are designed with the following premise:

What are the most common things that a PhD student or Researcher will need to know how to do when they start using UKCA?

Often you will want to use UKCA to answer questions like these:

  • What happens when I add in reaction A to form new species B?
  • What is the effect of changing the emissions of C?
  • How does the deposition of D affect process E?
  • How do my changes affect the aerosol properties?
  • What is the budget of F?
    • Output the fluxes of reactions G, H, and I to diagnose it.

When you have completed the UKCA Tutorials you should have a basic understanding how to make the required changes needed to answer these questions.

Throughout the tutorial you are asked to perform a series of tasks. In fact, these are mostly part of one big task which is:

  • Create two new species, ALICE and BOB, then add in emissions of ALICE and the reaction
    before adding in the dry deposition of ALICE and the wet deposition of BOB. You should also output the fluxes through the reaction and deposition processes. You will then look at several aerosol diagnostics.



Written by Luke Abraham 2021.