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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: Geosci Model Dev. 2017;10(4):1587–1605. doi: 10.5194/gmd-10-1587-2017

Table 2.

Modeled processes and associated rate coefficients and equations.

Process Equations Rate coefficients Other information*
Gas-liquid phase
transfer
Cg,ikfCaq,i kf = kmt,iwL kmt,i(s1volairvolH2O)=(r23Dg,i+4r3v¯iαi)1
Liquid-gas phase
transfer
Caq,ikbCg,i kb=kmt,iHT,iRT vi¯=8RTMWiπ

Xion,f: Dissociation
Caq,ikfCaq,i1+H+ kb = literature value, T independent Keqi,T=Keqi,Tref[ΔHaR((1T)(1Tref))]
Activity coefficients are rolled into the forward
and backward rates as appropriate
Xion,b: Association Caq,i1+H+kbCaq,i kf=Keqi,Tkb

Ascav: Droplet
scavenging of
interstitial aerosol
Caer,i,aknαCaq,i 𝛼 𝛼 is the attachment rate for interstitial aerosols, calculated external to the aqueous chemistry module according to Binkowski and Roselle (2003)

Wdep: Wet
deposition
Caq,iWdepCWD,i Wdep=1τwash τwash(s)=WTAVG×CTHK×3600PRATE,0
where WTAVG = total liquid water content, CTHK = cloud thickness, PRATE = precipitation rate

Raq: Chemical
kinetics
Caq,1+Caq,2krxnCaq,3 krxn Complex rate coefficients are set according to the CMAQ base mechanism (Sarwar et al., 2013; Carlton et al., 2010). While most droplet species are assumed to be well-mixed, a correction factor may be applied to account for aqueous diffusion limitations (Table S3). This correction factor, Qi, relates surface and bulk droplet concentrations.
krxn,effective = krxnQi
Qi=3(coth(qi)qi1qi2),Qi1
qi=rkiDaq,i
*

MW is the molecular weight; Dg,i is the gas-phase diffusion coefficient (m2 s−1); 𝛼i is the accommodation coefficient; qi is the diffuso-reactive parameter; Daq,i is the aqueous-phase diffusion coefficient (m2 s−1); ki is the effective first-order reaction rate of species i; r is the droplet radius (m).