Hello,
Thanks so much for describing your case. Unfortunately, you are correct that aerosol bulk names should not be used as emissions variables in this particular context. We have not encountered this use case, but I will flag it as an issue and think about how best to support it. There two somewhat conflicting features:
- Families (e.g. NOX) are useful as emission species names to modify multiple species at once.
- It is useful to predefine bulk aerosol names as families.
One way out may be to mandate a prefix or suffix for families.
I recommend, for now, changing the name of the emission variable on the file if you can. I’m sorry for the inconvenience.
-Ben