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Atmospheric model. II: chemistry & transport

·       Chemical model:

o     33 chemical species and 5 chemical families

o     145 chemical or photolysis reactions, including heterogeneous chemistry on PSCs;

o     Tendencies computed through an iterative Euler-backward scheme.

·       Transport:

VanLeer eulerian scheme

o     Mass conservative

o     Positive definite

o     Low computational cost