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The NILU Atmospheric Backward Transport Analysis Products for POLARCAT-ARCPAC
by Andreas Stohl, John Burkhart and Harald Sodemann
What this site is about
This site presents a resource to interpret transport processes and how they influenced aircraft measurements during the campaigns performed as part of the French component of POLARCAT. It attempts to replace trajectory calculations -- to date, the major tool used for that purpose -- with quantiative dispersion model runs including full turbulence and convection parameterizations as well as dry and wet deposition calculations. The plots shown are from backward model runs using the FLEXPART model.A general description of the FLEXPART backward modeling products and the ideas behind is available as a manuscript in PDF format.
A description of the various products available specifically for this campaign, and the various settings (output domains, resolution of input data, etc.) can be found here.
Backward modeling products are available for these dates:
DC8 flightsspring
2008 03 18
2008 03 20
2008 04 01
2008 04 04
2008 04 05
2008 04 08
2008 04 09
2008 04 12
2008 04 16
2008 04 17
2008 04 19
summer
2008 06 18
2008 06 20
2008 06 22
2008 06 24
2008 06 26 flt 16
2008 06 26 flt 17
2008 06 29
2008 07 01
2008 07 04
2008 07 05
2008 07 08
2008 07 09
2008 07 10
2008 07 13