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HEMCO Standalone User Guide

  • Introduction to the HEMCO Standalone
  • Obtain the required hardware
  • Install required software libraries
  • Configure your login environment
  • Download the source code
  • Create a run directory
  • Build the executable
  • Configure a simulation
  • Download input data
  • Run a simulation

HEMCO Reference Guide

  • Introduction to HEMCO
  • Basic examples
  • The HEMCO configuration file
  • HEMCO extensions
  • Units in HEMCO
  • HEMCO diagnostics
  • More configuration examples
  • HEMCO under the hood
  • Input file format
  • Coupling HEMCO to other models
  • Key References

Supplemental Guides

  • Load software into your environment
  • Build required software with Spack
  • Understand what error messages mean
  • Debug GEOS-Chem and HEMCO errors
  • GEOS-Chem Input Data on AWS cloud
  • Additional portals for meteorology data
  • Manage a data archive with bashdatacatalog
  • Parallelize GEOS-Chem and HEMCO source code
  • Work with netCDF files
  • Prepare COARDS-compliant netCDF files
  • View related documentation

Help and Reference

  • HEMCO version history
  • Known bugs and issues
  • Contributing Guidelines
  • Support Guidelines
  • Editing this User Guide
  • geoschem_config.yml
  • HEMCO_Config.rc
  • HEMCO_Diagn.rc
  • Aerosol, chemistry, and photolysis configuration files
  • species_database.yml
  • Aerosol-only simulation
  • Carbon gases simulation
  • Fullchem simulation
  • Hg (mercury) simulation
  • Metals simulation
  • Tagged O3 simulation
  • TransportTracers simulation
  • Aerosol types
  • Advanced Particle Microphysics (APM)
  • Aerosol thermodynamical equilibrium
  • Cloud convection
  • Customize emissions with HEMCO
  • Customize simulations with research options
  • Dry deposition
  • Archive output with the History diagnostics
  • Planetary boundary layer mixing
  • Photolysis mechanisms
  • Physical constants
  • Particulate matter
  • Radiative transfer with RRTMG
  • Science Guides overview
  • TOMAS aerosol microphysics
  • Use the KPP-Standalone box model to test chemical mechanisms
  • Wet deposition
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