Chapman
- ChapmanMechanism
model
gaschem
stratospheric
Stratospheric Chapman mechanism for ozone production and destruction (Seinfeld & Pandis 2006 Ch. 5, §5.2, Eqs. 5.1-5.17). Two-state ODE on atomic oxygen O and ozone O3 driven by the four canonical Chapman reactions: O2 photolysis (j_O2), three-body recombination O + O2 + M → O3 + M (k2 with power-law T-dependence (T_ref/T)^2.4), O3 photolysis (j_O3), and the O + O3 → 2 O2 odd-oxygen sink (k4 with Arrhenius temperature dependence). Odd oxygen Ox = O + O3 is *not* exactly conserved — the Chapman cycle has a net Ox source (2·j_O2·O2·M from O2 photolysis) balanced against an Ox sink (2·k4·O·O3 from the O+O3 reaction) — but on short timescales (≲ 10 s under default mid-stratosphere conditions) the net change is small (~4e-5 relative drift) and the upstream test treats it as quasi-conserved at rtol=1e-4. Migrated from GasChem.jl@8c12c048 src/StratosphericChemistry.jl:51 (`ChapmanMechanism` @component). Rate coefficients carry SI units throughout, converted from Seinfeld & Pandis CGS values via cm^6/molec^2/s × 1e-12 → m^6/s for the 3-body k2 and cm^3/molec/s × 1e-6 → m^3/s for the bimolecular k4.