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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<journal-title>EGUsphere</journal-title>
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<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-2389</article-id>
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<article-title>GPU-accelerated atmospheric chemical kinetics using single precision in the ECHAM/MESSy (EMAC) model v2.55 with MEDINA v2.0</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Sophocleous</surname>
<given-names>Kyriacos</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1306-3484</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Kirfel</surname>
<given-names>Timo</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6378-8745</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Taraborrelli</surname>
<given-names>Domenico</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2213-6307</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Christoudias</surname>
<given-names>Theodoros</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-3880</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>The Cyprus Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Climate and Energy Systems, ICE-3: Troposphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>30</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>19</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Kyriacos Sophocleous et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Atmospheric chemical kinetics puts a major computational burden on Earth system models, yet its embarrassingly parallel nature of the problem structure makes it well suited to GPU acceleration. Here we present a single-precision floating point (FP32) GPU implementation of the MECCA chemical kinetics submodule in the ECHAM/MESSy Atmospheric Chemistry (EMAC) model. It is enabled by the MEDINA code-to-code compiler v2.0 and compatible with the Rosenbrock-family numerical solvers generated by the Kinetic Pre-Processor (KPP). The approach exploits FP32 arithmetic inside the GPU kernels while preserving double precision in the host EMAC workflow via explicit type conversion on the GPU.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We evaluate the numerical fidelity and achieved performance in both an idealised box-model configuration and in full EMAC production simulations on the JUWELS Booster system. Across tested mechanisms and resolutions, FP32 reproduces the double-precision CPU reference to within &amp;lt;0.004 % in total-species-mass differences, with discrepancies confined to chemically depleted tracers near machine representation limits. In production-scale runs, FP32 further reduces the average chemical-kinetics execution time by about 30 % relative to the FP64 GPU implementation and lowers the memory footprint of FP-intensive data structures. Chemistry calculations in FP32 enhance scalability for high-resolution and chemically complex simulations.</p>
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<funding-source>European Commission</funding-source>
<award-id>856612</award-id>
<award-id>857645</award-id>
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