Latest Release

Version 7.30 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v7.20. New features include:

CB7r1, RACM2, and CB6r5h gas-phase photochemical mechanisms.
A major update to the SOAP organic PM chemistry routine.
New optional tools for DDM (Chemical Sensitivity Analysis and dry deposition sensitivity).

Version 7.31 supersedes v7.30 with some bug fixes. More information specific to v7.31 and v7.30 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 7.20 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v7.10. New features include:

The Cloud-in-Grid (CiG) convective mixing model comprises an entraining/detraining plume model that treats shallow to deep vertical mixing within sub-grid convective clouds.
The Stratospheric Ozone Profile Scheme (SOPS) is for hemispheric applications that defines stratospheric ozone profiles based on independently derived inputs of time- and space-varying top boundary conditions.
The Piecewise Parabolic Method (PPM; Colella and Woodward, 1984) is now an option available for vertical advection.

More information specific to v7.20 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 7.10 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v7.00. New features include:

CB6 revision 5 (CB6r5) incorporates recent updates to chemical reactions for inorganic and simple organic species that play important roles in ozone formation. One new reaction was added.
Updates to TUV to support CB6r5.

More information specific to v7.10 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 7.00 is a major update, including new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v6.50. New features include:

NetCDF gridded input files, including emissions, meteorology, and initial/boundary concentrations; the model will accept a mix of netCDF or original Fortran binary input files for maximum flexibility and backward compatibility.
New 3-D gridded emissions file in netCDF format for certain non-point source sectors that are emitted above the surface and have traditionally been input to the model as elevated point sources.
Support for multiple point, 2-D and 3-D gridded input emission files, alleviating the need to merge components into single input files.
The bi-directional ammonia algorithm of Zhang et al. (2010).
Chemistry for dimethyl sulfide (DMS) has been added to the CB6r4 gas-phase mechanism.
Eight new primary PM2.5 elemental species (Fe, Mg, Mn, Ca, K, Al, Si, Ti) can be optionally included in the CF aerosol treatment.
OSAT/PSAT have been updated to support one-way nesting, which expands model flexibility and facilitates CAMx hemispheric-to-regional downscaling source apportionment applications.
Several updates to secondary organic aerosol chemistry.

More information specific to v7.00 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.50 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v6.40. New features include:

NetCDF gridded output files, including the core model average concentration and deposition files, and Probing Tool output.
EQSAM for inorganic gas-aerosol partitioning as an alternative to ISORROPIA.
Chemical Process Analysis (CPA) extended to all gas-phase mechanisms.
Chemistry mechanism CB6r2h and SAPRC07TC extended to include source apportionment.

More information specific to v6.50 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.40 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v6.30. New features include:

A new CB6 chemistry mechanism (CB6r4 as Mechanism 4).
A new in-line inorganic iodine (Ix) emissions algorithm.
Major revision to the SOAP secondary organic aerosol chemistry/partitioning algorithm.
Updated aqueous metal-catalyzed and peroxide reactions for sulfate.
Major revision to the wet deposition algorithm.
Source apportionment (OSAT/APCA and PSAT) updates to account for chemistry modifications.
Removal of the separate ocean mask (aka land/water mask) field. Now the distinction between ocean and fresh water bodies is made explicitly in the CAMx input landuse file to ensure that the in-line Ix emissions are emitted from ocean bodies only.
Faster ACM2 solver from CMAQ v5.1.
Revised anthropogenic and biogenic classification of SOA precursors in the VBS SOA option.

More information specific to v6.40 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.30 includes new features, modifications and bug fixes since the release of v6.20. New features include:

Several modifications to improve model speed by 15-50%, depending on compiler, chipset and model configuration.
Major update to OSAT to account for NOx recycling of ozone and to improve consistency with PSAT nitrate chemistry.
New Mercator and Polar projections from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model.
New surface albedo treatment for snow following the approach in the WRF/NOAH land surface model.
Extended surface chemistry model to include Zhang dry deposition and snow cover.
A new CB6 chemistry mechanism (CB6r3 as Mechanism 4).
A new SAPRC07 chemistry mechanism replacing the SAPRC99 mechanism.

More information specific to v6.30 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.20 includes new features, modifications, and bug fixes since the release of v6.11. New features include:

A hybrid 1.5-dimensional (1.5-D) Volatility Basis Set (VBS) treatment for secondary organic aerosols.
A new optional top boundary condition (BC) input file, derived from three-dimensional output from global models, to improve the characterization of chemicals entering the model top.
A new CB6 halogen chemistry mechanism (CB6r2h as Mechanism 3).

More information specific to v6.20 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.11 includes enhancements and bug fixes to version 6.10. New features include:

A new CB6 chemistry mechanism (CB6r2) including emitted methane (ECH4).
Extensively updated Plume-in-Grid (PiG) submodel, including a condensed fast gas-phase chemical mechanism for GREASD PiG.
A new DDM treatement for PM (PM-DDM).
Updated ISORROPIA from v1.6 to v1.7.
Expanded RTRAC probing tool allowing tracers to directly use photolysis and deposition rates calculated for any core model species.
A new surface model treating chemical reactions of deposited material and re-emission.

More information specific to v6.11 and v6.10 is available in the Release Notes.

Version 6.00 includes the following additional capabilities over v5.41:

Revised Input Formats: All major gridded input/output fields are now in a common format.
The process to generate photolysis (J) rates and their use in CAMx has changed:
1) The albedo/haze/ozone file now contains only ozone column data – other fields are internally calculated or moved to other files. Use the new “O3MAP” pre-processor.

2) The TUV photolysis pre-processor has been updated.

3) CAMx interpolates lookup J rates to cell-specific values of solar zenith, height above ground, terrain height, and albedo.

4) The original RADM cloud adjustment has been removed. In-line TUV is now the only cloud/haze adjustment scheme.
Mercury chemistry has been updated to include adsorption of Hg(II) to PM and gas-phase reactions with ambient bromine (reactions with molecular chlorine have been removed).

More information specific to v6.00 is available in the Release Notes.