Norsk institutt for luftforskning


The NILU Atmospheric Backward Transport Analysis Products

by Andreas Stohl


What this site is about

This site presents a resource to interpret transport processes and how they influenced recent measurements taken at the Summit, Greenland, station. It attempts to replace trajectory calculations -- the major tool used so far for that purpose -- with quantiative dispersion model runs including full turbulence and convection parameterizations. The plots shown are from backward model runs using the FLEXPART model. A description of the various products derived from the backward runs can be found here.

Backward modeling products are available for the following months:

Summit, 2000 01
Summit, 2000 02
Summit, 2000 03
Summit, 2000 04
Summit, 2000 05
Summit, 2000 06
Summit, 2000 07
Summit, 2000 08
Summit, 2000 09
Summit, 2000 10
Summit, 2000 11
Summit, 2000 12
Summit, 2001 01
Summit, 2001 02
Summit, 2001 03
Summit, 2001 04
Summit, 2001 05
Summit, 2001 06
Summit, 2001 07
Summit, 2001 08
Summit, 2001 09
Summit, 2001 10
Summit, 2001 11
Summit, 2001 12
Summit, 2002 01
Summit, 2002 02
Summit, 2002 03
Summit, 2002 04
Summit, 2002 05
Summit, 2002 06
Summit, 2002 07
Summit, 2002 08
Summit, 2002 09
Summit, 2002 10
Summit, 2002 11
Summit, 2002 12
Summit, 2003 01
Summit, 2003 02
Summit, 2003 03
Summit, 2003 04
Summit, 2003 05
Summit, 2003 06
Summit, 2003 07
Summit, 2003 08
Summit, 2003 09
Summit, 2003 10
Summit, 2003 11
Summit, 2003 12
Summit, 2004 01
Summit, 2004 02
Summit, 2004 03
Summit, 2004 04
Summit, 2004 05
Summit, 2004 06
Summit, 2004 07
Summit, 2004 08
Summit, 2004 09
Summit, 2004 10
Summit, 2004 11
Summit, 2004 12
Summit, 2005 01
Summit, 2005 02
Summit, 2005 03
Summit, 2005 04
Summit, 2005 05
Summit, 2005 06
Summit, 2005 07
Summit, 2005 08
Summit, 2005 09
Summit, 2005 10
Summit, 2005 11
Summit, 2005 12
Summit, 2006 01
2006 02 missing because of ECMWF model changes
Summit, 2006 03
Summit, 2006 04
Summit, 2006 05
Summit, 2006 06
Summit, 2006 07
Summit, 2006 08
Summit, 2006 09
Summit, 2006 10
Summit, 2006 11
Summit, 2006 12
Summit, 2007 01
Summit, 2007 02
Summit, 2007 03
Summit, 2007 04
Summit, 2007 05
Summit, 2007 06

If you have any questions about the modelling products please contact Andreas Stohl.