Changelog

2022 Technology Preview - work in progress

  • Currently unreleased. This technology preview is targeting a 3.0 release with GEOS-Chem 14.1.0.

  • Feature: Supports GEOS-Chem 14.1.1, KPP 3.0.0, and HEMCO 3.6.2.

  • Feature: Supports WRF version 4.4.

  • Feature: Infrastructure for specialty simulations. Now can install couplers for fullchem, ch4, and co2 using the install_registry command.

  • Feature: Compiles GEOS-Chem 13+ without using CMake by maintaining the legacy GNU infrastructure.

  • Feature: Auto-patching of wrf_io.F90 to support more than 3,000 variables in wrfbdy.

  • Feature: No longer inputs initial/boundary conditions for non-advected species through i0{12} switch in registry.chem.

  • Enhancement: Recompile no longer wipes configuration files by automatically calling make install_configs. Configuration files are installed once using make install_registry or others for specialty simulations.

  • Enhancement: New coupler species generation infrastructure shared with CESM2-GC.

  • Enhancement: Support for QV2M met field for online blowing snow emissions.

  • Bugfix: Fix stack corruption issue in chemics_init coordinates.

  • Bugfix: More robust support for get_last_gas due to WRFv4 upstream updates.

  • Bugfix: Month-boundary HEMCO emissions missing timesteps.

  • Bugfix: ParaNOx stability issue via upstream GEOS-Chem 14.0.1 fix. Note that according to Colombi et al., 2022 ACPD (in review) it may not be necessary to use ParaNOx for high-resolution simulations with WRF-GC.

  • Bugfix: Initial condition input bug for nested domain(s).

v2.0.2 (September 30, 2022)

  • Bugfix: Initial condition input bug for nested domain(s). (Backport)

v2.0.1 (September 16, 2021)

  • Bugfix: Boundary conditions incorrect dimension. (Regressed bug)

v2.0 (April 7, 2020)

  • Feng et al., 2021 GMD release.

  • Feature: Support GEOS-Chem 12.7.2, 12.6.3.

  • Feature: Nested domain functionality.

  • Feature: Aerosol-radiation interactions and aerosol-cloud interactions.

  • Feature: Lightning NOx emissions.

  • Enhancement: Intel MPI support.

  • Bugfix: MPI issue for HEMCO masks.

  • Bugfix: Regridding bug causing striped artifacts in MPI CPU boundaries.

2020 Technology Preview (December 28, 2019)

  • Feature: Experimental nested domain functionality.

  • Feature: Initial version of aerosol-radiation interactions and aerosol-cloud interactions.

v0.92 (January 2, 2021)

  • Bugfix: Fix for HEMCO 3.0 (Lin et al., 2021 GMD) supporting vertical regridding of emissions data. (Backport)

v0.91 (July 6, 2020)

  • Bugfix: Boundary conditions incorrect dimension.

v0.9-hotfix (August 6, 2019)

  • Bugfix: Support Intel 2017 compilers.

v1.0 (June 19, 2019)

  • Lin et al., 2020 GMD release. (First stable release) Released August 2, 2019 as v0.9.

  • Feature: Support GEOS-Chem 12.2.1.

  • Enhancement: Support OpenMPI.

  • Enhancement: Experimental support for GNU compilers.

  • Bugfix: PEDGE incorrect values, surface pressure too low.

  • Bugfix: Boundary conditions input.

v0.11 (May 7, 2019)

  • Bugfix: AREA_M2 heap overflow.

v0.1 (Beta 1) (December 8, 2018)

  • Bugfix: Landmap, convection, meteorology field conversion.

  • Bugfix: Double emissions due to tendency application.

Alpha 6 (November 22, 2018)

  • Enhancement: Significantly faster coupler.

Alpha 5 (November 14, 2018)

  • Feature: Support ntiedtke scheme.

  • Feature: WRF-GC performance timers.

Alpha 4 (November 12, 2018)

  • Bugfix: HEMCO projection issues.

Alpha 3 (October 26, 2018)

  • Feature: Support GEOS-Chem 12.1.0.

Alpha 2 (October 11, 2018)

  • Feature: Partial support for GEOS-Chem “netCDF” diagnostics (now History diagnostics)

Alpha 1 (August 15, 2018)

  • Feature: Support for out-of-the-box GEOS-Chem 12.0.0, changes made in collaboration with GCST.

Alpha 0 (July 2018)

  • Bugfix: Convection fixes.

GCA1 Technology Preview (April 2018)

  • First ever release of WRF-GC defining the isolated coupler and source code infrastructure.

  • Feature: Supports GEOS-Chem v11-02c.

  • Feature: Supports WRF 3.9.1.1.