Suggest renaming TOMAS binned aerosol species to include leading zero

[msulprizio]

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Name: Melissa Sulprizio
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The latest updates for the TransportTracer simulation (#1816) rename sulfur hexafluoride from "SF6Tracer" to "SF6" for consistency with other models. This update causes the TOMAS simulation to fail integration tests because SF6 is also defined in species_database_tomas.yml to represent sulfate aerosol, size bin 6.

geos-chem/run/shared/species_database_tomas.yml

Lines 944 to 973 in 4722f28

	SF_PROP: &SFproperties
	DD_DvzAerSnow: 0.03
	DD_F0: 0.0
	DD_Hstar: 0.0
	Is_Advected: true
	Is_Aerosol: true
	Is_WetDep: true
	MP_SizeResAer: true
	MW_g: 96.0
	WD_AerScavEff: 1.0
	WD_KcScaleFac: [1.0, 0.5, 1.0]
	WD_RainoutEff: [1.0, 0.0, 1.0]
	SF1:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 1
	SF2:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 2
	SF3:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 3
	SF4:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 4
	SF5:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 5
	SF6:
	<< : *SFproperties
	FullName: Sulfate aerosol, size bin = 6

To avoid conflicts in species names, I suggest renaming the TOMAS species to something like SF06 (i.e. using a leading zero for size bins 1-9) and doing the same for the other binned aerosol species (AW, DUST, ECIL, ECOB, NK, OCIL, OCOB, SS).

Tagging @BettyCroft @theloniuspunk @yantosca for comments/concerns.

[BettyCroft]

Hi @msulprizio - I've discussed with @theloniuspunk and we are in agreement with this name change to use leading zeros for TOMAS species names. Tagging @yantosca for update. Thanks for your help with this issue!

[msulprizio]

Excellent. Thanks for confirming @BettyCroft and @theloniuspunk! I will proceed with making these updates and aim to get them into 14.2.1.

[yantosca]

I believe we can close this out as the tomas updates have been merged into the GEOS-Chem 14.3.0 development stream.