Downloading and Plotting MOZART-4 Output

Model for OZone and Related Chemical Tracers, Version 4

• Global offline chemical transport model• Gas Phase Chemistry: MOZART-4 85 gas-phase species,

39 photolysis, 157 gas-phase reactions • Aerosols: 12 bulk aerosol compounds

(CB1, CB2, OC1, OC2, SO4, NH4, NH4NO3, SOA, SEASALT (4 bins)) + climatological dust

• Online dry deposition• Online biogenic emissions• Stratospheric climatology

Resources: Model Description: Emmons et al., Geophysical Model Development, 2010Website: http://www.acd.ucar.edu/gctm/mozart/models/m4/

CO Total Column May 2003

Downloading MOZART-4 Output

• Simulations for past time periods: www.acd.ucar.edu/wrf-chem/mozart.shtml(Driven by different meteorological inputs: NCEP: Jan 2, 2003 to Dec 1, 2009

GEOS-5 Jan 1, 2007 to Mar 31, 2013Selection of specific time periods and regions enabled

• Near-real time forecasts: www.acd.ucar.edu/acresp/forecast/

Output format:NetCdf

Simulations provided by Louisa Emmons, NCAR/ACD (emmons@ucar.edu)

Web-based Plotting of MOZART-4 Forecasts

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Web-based Plotting of MOZART-4 Forecasts

Web-based Plotting of MOZART-4 Forecasts

Web-based Plotting of MOZART-4 Forecasts

Forecast Runs: Analysis: Apr 2013 – present

Forecast: 3 days from presentTracer Runs: 23 July – 26 Sep 2013

Select Species{BIGENE (lumped alkenes C>3) BIGALK (lumped alkanes C>3) BIGALD (product of toluene) TOLUENE (lumped aromatics)}

Units: ppb

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Web-based Plotting of MOZART-4 Forecasts

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