Aerosol-related modules fully coupled in WRF-Chem

Given the importance of representing biomass burning emissions, aerosol formation and feedback effects simultaneously in WRF-Chem, the file WRF-Chem_v.3.7.1_model_code_modification.tar.gz contains the modifications needed to couple the chemistry-aerosol mechanism CB05-MADE/VBS (chem_opt=132, with aqueous-phase chemistry) with the plume rise model (biomass_burn_opt=3, adapted from the default setting with MOZART). In addition, the AAS4WRF (Vara-Vela et al., 2016), a ncl based mass-conserving emissions preprocessor designed to create WRF-Chem ready emissions files from local inventories on a lat/lon projection, emerges as an alternative way to scale and convert the local emissions to those required for WRF-Chem. (Vara-Vela, A., Andrade, M. F., Kumar, P., Ynoue, R. Y., and Muñoz, A. G.: Impact of vehicular emissions on the formation of fine particles in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area: a numerical study with the WRF-Chem model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 777-797, 2016)