Key References
GEOS-Chem was first described in [Bey et al., 2001].
HEMCO is described in [Keller et al., 2014] and [Lin et al., 2021].
Columnar operators are described in [Long et al., 2015].
GEOS-Chem High Performance (GCHP) is described in [Eastham et al., 2018].
GCHP execution on the cloud and MPI considerations are described in [Zhuang et al., 2020].
Grid-stretching is described in [Bindle et al., 2021].
Major GCHP developments in v13 are described in [Martin et al., 2022].
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