Wrong units for SLP and TROPP in preprocessed GEOS-IT ExtData.rc

[Yuanjian Zhang]

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In GEOS-IT preprocessed files, all pressure terms (PS, SLP and TROPP) are scaled to hPa. However, Extdata.rc only correctly labels PS as hPa, while SLP and TROPP are still in Pa with a scaling factor of 0.01. The incorrect TROPP might affect chemistry and transport tracer benchmarking.

SLP     Pa  N Y F0;003000 none 0.01 SLP      ./MetDir/%y4/%m2/GEOSIT.%y4%m2%d2.A1.05x0625.nc
TROPP   Pa  N Y F0;003000 none 0.01 TROPPT   ./MetDir/%y4/%m2/GEOSIT.%y4%m2%d2.A1.05x0625.nc

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[Lizzie Lundgren]

Thanks for reporting this! We will put a fix into 14.3.1. See PR geoschem/geos-chem#2207.

[Bob Yantosca]

We can now close this issue as PR #2207 has now been merged into the "no-diff-to-benchmark" development stream.