[FEATURE REQUEST] Transport Tracers benchmark for less than one year

[lizziel]

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Name: Lizzie Lundgren
Institution: Harvard University

New GCPy feature or discussion

This is another non-urgent nice-to-have feature request. We currently have the capability for running the 1-month full chemistry benchmark suite on any full chemistry run duration. This is useful for testing new updates in GEOS-Chem and also debugging. It would be nice to have the same capability for transport tracer simulations. Right now you only have the option of running the transport tracer comparison for 1-year runs.

A nice way to implement this would be to have our benchmark yml files specify type of benchmark and duration separately. For example, types would be fullchem and TransportTracers. Duration could be 1-year, 1-month, and custom. Or 1-month and other could be combined, as it seems to be for the 1-month fullchem benchmark. Ultimately there could be a single template yaml file within which you could specify any comparison.

[yantosca]

@lizziel, this would be a great idea to consolidate the YAML files and specify the duration.

[yantosca]

@lizziel: We could abstract the fullchem benchmark code out of run_benchmark.py so that we could import a similar routine for the TransportTracers benchmark. This would run for durations less than 1 year.

I also like the idea of specifying the duration in the YAML config file.