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Tropospheric chemistry and air quality processes were implemented on-line in the Global Environmental Multiscale model. The integrated model, GEM-AQ, was developed as a platform to investigate chemical weather at scales from global to urban. The current chemical mechanism is comprised of 50 gas-phase species, 116 chemical and 19 photolysis reactions, and is complemented by a sectional aerosol module with 5 aerosols types. All tracers are advected using the semi-Lagrangian scheme native to GEM.
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Kaminski, J., Neary, L., Struzewska, J., McConnell, J.C. (2010). Multiscale Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling with GEMAQ. In: Baklanov, A., Alexander, M., Sokhi, R. (eds) Integrated Systems of Meso-Meteorological and Chemical Transport Models. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13980-2_4
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