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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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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-2026-2532</article-id>
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<article-title>A computationally efficient TVD-FFSL hybrid tracer transport scheme on spherical centroidal voronoi tessellations in iAMAS (v2.6.3)</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Gudongze</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0102-4472</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>Zhao</surname>
<given-names>Chun</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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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>Xia</surname>
<given-names>Yinhua</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Dong</surname>
<given-names>Li</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4">
<sup>4</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xue</surname>
<given-names>Yibo</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Zhang</surname>
<given-names>Xiao-Xiao</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-620X</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5">
<sup>5</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Gu</surname>
<given-names>Jun</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6129-3191</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff6">
<sup>6</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Feng</surname>
<given-names>Jiawang</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9601-2852</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Xia</surname>
<given-names>Zihan</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2886-9160</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Earth and Space Sciences/Joint Laboratory of Fengyun Remote Sensing/State Key Laboratory of Fire Science/Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research on High-Performance Computing Systems and Software, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Laoshan Laboratory, Qingdao, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff5">
<label>5</label>
<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, China</addr-line>
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<aff id="aff6">
<label>6</label>
<addr-line>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>22</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>39</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Gudongze Li et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Tracer transport is a critical computational bottleneck in high-resolution atmospheric chemistry models, where tens to hundreds of species are advected. The iAMAS model (v2.6.3) on spherical centroidal Voronoi tessellations (SCVTs) currently employs a scheme (2H1FCT) that performs two steps of third-order transport followed by one step of flux-corrected transport (FCT), in which the FCT correction step dominates computational cost. This study develops TVD-FFSL, a computationally efficient hybrid tracer transport scheme. Horizontally, a total variation diminishing (TVD) flux operator with the KOREN limiter is employed. Vertically, a flux-form semi-Lagrangian (FFSL) operator based on piecewise parabolic method reconstruction handles cells with CFL &amp;gt; 1unconditionally. Together with a second-order TVD Runge-Kutta time integration, the scheme ensures monotonicity without a separate FCT step. Idealized 2D tests demonstrate that TVD-FFSL achieves robust shape preservation. Although its errors are slightly higher than 2H1FCT, superior convergence rates render the accuracy gap negligible at finer resolutions (∆&lt;em&gt;x&lt;/em&gt; &amp;le; 30 km). Realistic 3D dust simulations on a 16&amp;ndash;60 km variable-resolution grid confirm its long-term stability and accuracy comparable to 2H1FCT. Performance benchmarks show that TVD-FFSL achieves over 2&amp;times; speedup in standalone transport tests and exceeds 3.75&amp;times; speedup in long-term atmospheric dust simulations, significantly reducing the computational overhead of numerous tracer transport. The design principles of TVD-FFSL could be transferable to other unstructured meshes, offering a pathway toward accelerating high-resolution atmospheric chemistry simulations.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>424B2042</award-id>
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<funding-source>Fudan University</funding-source>
<award-id>SIMIS-ID-2024-XD</award-id>
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<funding-source>National Science and Technology Major Project</funding-source>
<award-id>2025ZD1201700</award-id>
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<funding-source>Chinese Academy of Sciences</funding-source>
<award-id>XDB0500303</award-id>
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<funding-source>Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences</funding-source>
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