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 Zeppelin, Spitsbergen, measurement site. 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:

Zeppelin, 1997 01
Zeppelin, 1997 02
Zeppelin, 1997 03
Zeppelin, 1997 04
Zeppelin, 1997 05
Zeppelin, 1997 06
Zeppelin, 1997 07
Zeppelin, 1997 08
Zeppelin, 1997 09
Zeppelin, 1997 10
Zeppelin, 1997 11
Zeppelin, 1997 12
Zeppelin, 1998 01
Zeppelin, 1998 02
Zeppelin, 1998 03
Zeppelin, 1998 04
Zeppelin, 1998 05
Zeppelin, 1998 06
Zeppelin, 1998 07
Zeppelin, 1998 08
Zeppelin, 1998 09
Zeppelin, 1998 10
Zeppelin, 1998 11
Zeppelin, 1998 12
Zeppelin, 1999 01
Zeppelin, 1999 02
Zeppelin, 1999 03
Zeppelin, 1999 04
Zeppelin, 1999 05
Zeppelin, 1999 06
Zeppelin, 1999 07
Zeppelin, 1999 08
Zeppelin, 1999 09
Zeppelin, 1999 10
Zeppelin, 1999 11
Zeppelin, 1999 12
Zeppelin, 2000 01
Zeppelin, 2000 02
Zeppelin, 2000 03
Zeppelin, 2000 04
Zeppelin, 2000 05
Zeppelin, 2000 06
Zeppelin, 2000 07
Zeppelin, 2000 08
Zeppelin, 2000 09
Zeppelin, 2000 10
Zeppelin, 2000 11
Zeppelin, 2000 12
Zeppelin, 2001 01
Zeppelin, 2001 02
Zeppelin, 2001 03
Zeppelin, 2001 04
Zeppelin, 2001 05
Zeppelin, 2001 06
Zeppelin, 2001 07
Zeppelin, 2001 08
Zeppelin, 2001 09
Zeppelin, 2001 10
Zeppelin, 2001 11
Zeppelin, 2001 12
Zeppelin, 2002 01
Zeppelin, 2002 02
Zeppelin, 2002 03
Zeppelin, 2002 04
Zeppelin, 2002 05
Zeppelin, 2002 06
Zeppelin, 2002 07
Zeppelin, 2002 08
Zeppelin, 2002 09
Zeppelin, 2002 10
Zeppelin, 2002 11
Zeppelin, 2002 12
Zeppelin, 2003 01
Zeppelin, 2003 02
Zeppelin, 2003 03
Zeppelin, 2003 04
Zeppelin, 2003 05
Zeppelin, 2003 06
Zeppelin, 2003 07
Zeppelin, 2003 08
Zeppelin, 2003 09
Zeppelin, 2003 10
Zeppelin, 2003 11
Zeppelin, 2003 12
Zeppelin, 2004 01
Zeppelin, 2004 02
Zeppelin, 2004 03
Zeppelin, 2004 04
Zeppelin, 2004 05
Zeppelin, 2004 06
Zeppelin, 2004 07
Zeppelin, 2004 08
Zeppelin, 2004 09
Zeppelin, 2004 10
Zeppelin, 2004 11
Zeppelin, 2004 12
Zeppelin, 2005 01
Zeppelin, 2005 02
Zeppelin, 2005 03
Zeppelin, 2005 04
Zeppelin, 2005 05
Zeppelin, 2005 06
Zeppelin, 2005 07
Zeppelin, 2005 08
Zeppelin, 2005 09
Zeppelin, 2005 10
Zeppelin, 2005 11
Zeppelin, 2005 12
Zeppelin, 2006 01
2006 02 is missing because of ECMWF model changes.
Zeppelin, 2006 03
Zeppelin, 2006 04
Zeppelin, 2006 05


Zeppelin, 2010 01
Zeppelin, 2010 02
Zeppelin, 2010 03
Zeppelin, 2010 04
Zeppelin, 2010 05
Zeppelin, 2010 06
Zeppelin, 2010 07
Zeppelin, 2010 08

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