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. Here we present a description of the UKCA StratTrop chemical mechanism, which is used in the UKESM1 Earth system model for CMIP6. The StratTrop chemical mechanism is a merger of previously well-evaluated tropospheric and stratospheric mechanisms, and we provide results from a series of bespoke integrations to assess the overall performance of the model. We find that the StratTrop scheme performs well when compared to a widearray of observations. The analysis we present here focuses on keycomponents of atmospheric composition, namely the performance of the modelto simulate ozone in the stratosphere and troposphere and constituents thatare important for ozone in these regions. We find that the results obtainedfor tropospheric ozone and its budget terms from the use of the StratTropmechanism are sensitive to the host model; simulations with the samechemical mechanism run in an earlier version of the MetUM host model show arange of sensitivity to emissions that the current model does not fallwithin. Whilst the general model performance is suitable for use in the UKESM1 CMIP6 integrations, we note some shortcomings in the scheme that future targeted studies will address.

Description and evaluation of the UKCA stratosphere–troposphere chemistry scheme (StratTrop vn 1.0) implemented in UKESM1