The yaml below defines a chemical scheme for the oxidation of methane by OH, O(1D) and Cl by Joël Thanwerdas.

 1# Author: J. Thanwerdas
 2# Name of the chemical scheme
 3schemeid: LMDZ_ISO
 4
 5# Active species : species to be transported in the model
 6acspecies:
 7  CH4:
 8    restart_id: 1
 9    mass: 16.0425
10
11emis_species:
12  CH4:
13
14# State variables and J for photolysis
15kinetic:
16  dir: /home/inversion/yyin/CHEMFILES/INCA/
17  file: TransCom.vmr.new.m%m.nc
18
19# Prescribed species
20prescrconcs:
21  OH:
22  O1D:
23  Cl:
24
25# Deposited species
26deposition:
27  CH4:
28    dir: /home/satellites10/jthanwer/champs/soil_sink/dep_velo/
29    file: soil.an2000.m%m.nc
30
31# Chemical reactions
32reactions:
33  r1: CH4+O1D->CH3O2+OH  k=1.125e-10
34  r2: CH4+O1D->H2+CH2O   k=3.75e-11
35  r3: CH4+OH->CH2O       k(T)=Aexp(-B/T),A=2.45e-12,B=1775
36  r4: CH4+Cl->HCl+CH3    k(T)=Aexp(-B/T),A=7.1e-12,B=1270