Norwegian Institute for Air Research


The NILU Atmospheric Backward Transport Analysis Products for TEXAQS

by Andreas Stohl and Sabine Eckhardt


What this site is about

This site presents a resource to interpret transport processes and how they influenced aircraft, ship and station measurements during the TEXAQS campaign. 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. 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.

Disclaimer: We make these products freely accessible. If you feel that using them contributed significantly to one of your publications, I would appreciate if you could acknowledge that, or offer co-authorship, depending on how important you feel that these products actually were for your work. This will allow us continuing this kind of service also in the future. Of course, on request I can also produce custom-made plots with adjusted plotting domains, better image quality, etc.

Backward modeling products are available for the following flights:

P-3

31 August 2006
11 September 2006
13 September 2006
15 September 2006
16 September 2006
19 September 2006
20 September 2006
21 September 2006
25 September 2006
26 September 2006
27 September 2006
29 September 2006
5 October 2006
6 October 2006
8 October 2006
10 October 2006
12 October 2006
13 October 2006

Cirpas

21 August 2006
22 August 2006
23 August 2006
25 August 2006
26 August 2006
27 August 2006
28 August 2006, flight a
28 August 2006, flight b
29 August 2006
31 August 2006
1 September 2006
2 September 2006
3 September 2006
4 September 2006
6 September 2006
7 September 2006
8 September 2006
10 September 2006
11 September 2006
13 September 2006
14 September 2006
15 September 2006

Ron H. Brown

Leg 1
Leg 2

Waco Tower

WKT @ 457 m, July 2006
WKT @ 457 m, August 2006
WKT @ 457 m, September 2006
WKT @ 457 m, October 2006

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