Community Aerosol and Radiation Model for Atmospheres (CARMA) standalone 4.11 code

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Authors: NCAR CARMA Group, Owen Brian Toon Research group
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Abstract

CARMA is a general-purpose sectional microphysics code that has been used to study a wide variety of aerosols in planetary atmospheres. It originated from a one-dimensional stratospheric aerosol code developed by Turco et al. (1979) and Toon et al. (1979) that included both gas-phase sulfur chemistry and aerosol microphysics. The model was improved and extended to three dimensions as described by Toon et al. (1988). CARMA has been applied to almost every cloud and aerosol on Earth, as well as those on Venus, Mars, Titan, and exoplanets. This is the standalone CARMA version 4.11. To get the latest code, please download from https://github.com/ESCOMP/CARMA_base.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Atmospheric aerosols and clouds Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols Atmospheric Ozone and Climate

Publication details

Journal / source
CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder)
Publication date
12 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset