Cannot use ONLINE SULFUR AEROSOLS if LSULF=F!

[yonghumu]

Your name

Liu Meng

Your affiliation

LZU

What happened? What did you expect to happen?

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GEOS-Chem ERROR: Cannot use ONLINE SULFUR AEROSOLS if LSULF=F!
-> at Do_Error_Checks (in GeosCore/input_mod.F90)
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GEOS-Chem ERROR: Error encountered in "Do_Error_Checks"!
 -> at GC_Init_Extra (in module GeosCore/gc_environment_mod.F90)
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GEOS-CHEM ERROR: Error encountered in "GC_Init_Extra"!
STOP at  -> at GEOS-Chem (in GeosCore/main.F90)
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What are the steps to reproduce the bug?

Want to close the chemistry module and run

Please attach any relevant configuration and log files.

input (1).geos.txt

What GEOS-Chem version were you using?

13.0.0

What environment were you running GEOS-Chem on?

Local cluster

What compiler and version were you using?

gcc 10.2.0

Will you be addressing this bug yourself?

No

In what configuration were you running GEOS-Chem?

GCClassic

What simulation were you running?

Full chemistry

As what resolution were you running GEOS-Chem?

2×2.5

What meterology fields did you use?

MERRA-2

Additional information

No response

[yantosca]

Thanks for writing. The issue is that you have in input.geos:

Online SULFATE AEROSOLS : F

but you also have:

Species name            : SO2

which is a sulfate species. Try removing that from the list of species and rerunning.

Also note: 13.0.0 is by now an unsupported version. Please update to the latest version when possible.

[yonghumu]

Thank you. I removed SO2, but still have the same error.

[yantosca]

@yonghumu: Could you post your complete GEOS-Chem log file?

Also, are you able to run an "out-of-the-box" (i.e. unmodified) aerosol-only simulation?

[yonghumu]

GC.log.txt

Do you mean to select the aerosol-only option at installation and then run？

[yantosca]

That's correct @yonghumu. The problem is that you are trying to run an aerosol-only simulation from within a fullchem run directory. From your GC.log:

Simulation name             : fullchem

... etc ...

ADVECTED SPECIES MENU
------------------------------------------------
  #  Species Name
  1  BCPI                           
  2  BCPO                           
  3  CH4                            
  4  CLOCK                          
  5  CO                             
  6  DST1                           
  7  DST2                           
  8  DST3                           
  9  DST4                           
 10  H2O                            
 11  NH3                            
 12  NH4                            
 13  NO                             
 14  NO2                            
 15  O3                             
 16  OCPI                           
 17  OCPO                           
 18  SALA                           
 19  SALAAL                         
 20  SALC                           
 21  SALCAL