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POLARCAT SUMMER CAMPAIGN TOOLS:

• NASA Real Time Mission Monitoring
  

A GOOGLE Earth kml file that provides access to many resources including real-time flight tracking (password required), satellite data, and other products. For a password contact jfb (at) nilu.no

• NASA Larc Site
  

Many resources for planning and downloading of flight tracks and quickviews.

CHEMICAL FORECAST PRODUCTS:

• STEM Model Output and NRT Visualizations (Gregory Carmichael & Bhupesh Adhikary)
  
The University of Iowa's STEM regional chemical transport modeling simulations are performed at the 60km resolution. The Weather Research & Forecasting model (WRF) provides meteorological fields to drive these calculations. The real time biomass burning emissions and boundary conditions are provided by the RAQMS Modeling Group (Robert P. Pierce, NOAA) and (Jassim A. Al-Saadi, NASA Langley Research Center)
• FLEXPART Interactive and 6-hourly updated forecast products, A. Stohl, J. Burkhart (NILU-ATMOS)

An interactive and static plot browser providing links to 120 hour forecasts and various tools for creating curtain plots, time-height plots, and horizontal plots along flight tracks or defined transects. Plotting of time-series along a flight track, or for a particular station is also provided.

• IASI QuickLooks from Solène Turquety

Global trace gas distributions observed by the IASI/MetOp infrared sensor, retrieved using the near-real time trace gas retrieval algorithm developed at Service Aéronomie / IPSL (SA/IPSL), based on neural network techniques (see DOCUMENTATION).

• GEOS-CHEM Near Real Time Forecast Products

Output from the NRT simulations are posted to this website and consists of 3 different kinds of quantities:

3-D timeseries data: CO, Ozone, NOx, PAN, HNO3, ACETONE, aerosols (SO4-NO3-NH4; black carbon, organic carbon, dust, sea salt) 2-D timeseries data: Tropospheric columns of O3, NO2, HCHO; Total CO columns GEOS–Chem data saved along flight tracks: all GEOS–Chem chemical tracers absolute humidity temperature wind speed Chemically produced quantities: NO, OH, HO2 , JNO2, JO1D Aerosol optical depths
• SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 support for POLARCAT, University of Bremen

A quick look interface to SCIAMACHY and GOME-2 satellite data for the Artic campaigns during IPY.

• NOAA/NESDIS ARCPAC RAQMS Tools , R. Bradley Pierce, NOAA/NESDIS

Global chemistry and aerosol forecasts from the Real-time Air Quality Forecasting System (RAQMS).

• ARCTAS Operational Products (Walter Sessions, Henry Fuelberg, Florida State University)

Provides meteorological forecast products using WRF and Trajectories using


• NOAA/CSD FLEXPART Interactive Tool

An alternative interactive browser for FLEXPART forecasts run at NOAA-ESRL/CSD, by Jerome Brioude


• NASA/GFSC Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
• GEOS-5 Meteorologic Fields
• GEOS-5 CO, CO2, Aerosol Fields

• NCAR Global Chemical Transport Modeling ACD
There are several models being developed and used in ACD for global chemical transport modeling.

• MOZART - A global 3-D chemical transport model driven by offline meteorological fields, developed at NCAR, MPI-Meteorology, and NOAA/GFDL.
• CAM-Chem - the Community Atmosphere Model with interactive chemistry.
• CAM-Offline - CAM-Chem driven by observed meteorology.
• Data - Observations for model evaluation.
  
  
  

METEOROLOGICAL FORECAST PRODUCTS:

• Arctic IR Composite images, from Matthew Lazzara, Shelley Knuth, and Jen O'leary, AMRC:SSEC:UWisc
  

AMRC generates a new composite image every three hours. Satellites used to generate the composite can include: POES/NOAA, GOES -East and –West, METOSAT, MTSAT, FY-2, Kalpana-1, and Terra/Aqua. No image is more than +/- 50 minutes from the top of the synoptic hour.

• Satellite Imagery and Meteorological Products from NOAA-ESRL by Owen Cooper

A collection of composite products for the Arctic including composite IR images, GFS ouput, Sea Ice Products...

• ECMWF forecasts prepared by Andreas Dörnbrack, DLR (THORPEX Products)

Campaign Forecasts based on the T799/L91 ECMWF Integrated Forecast System. Two sets of forecasts are available. A medium-range forecast (6 days) covering the European Arctic and Greenland and a short-range forecast (3 days) covering the Norwegian and Barents Seas. (NOTE: Password protected, please contact jfb (at) nilu.no or Andreas Dörnbrack directly for access)






• Wind Profile data from Sheila Kirkwood
  more here: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/corporate/interproj/cwinde/profiler/kiruna.html

• Pan-Arctic Studies of the Coupled Tropospheric, Stratospheric and Mesospheric Circulation, UAF
Lidar observations, satellite data, and modeling products to document 3-D structure and evolution of the Arctic vortex and anticyclones with emphasis on vortex-vortex interactions and stratospheric warming/mesospheric cooling events. Provides lidar data and various met products, forecasts, and analysis plots of the Arctic Vortex formation. Lidar data is from:

1. ALOMAR - Andoya, Norway (69°N, 16°E)
2. PFRR - Chatanika, Alaska (65°N, 147°W)
3. PEARL - Eureka, Nunavut (80°N, 86°W),
4. SUARF - Kangarlussuaq, Greenland (67°N, 51°W)


• ECMWF Large-scale Analysis plots, weekly update on Fridays, University of Reading

Plots of Z, PV, TH, Omega on polar stereographic maps

• NOAA/NWS NCEP Model Analyses and Forecasts

Starting point for NAM and GFS model plots for several regions


• NCEP Sea Surface Temperature

Real-time, global, sea surface temperature analyses daily update, 0.5 and 0.083 degree resolution

• NOAA/NWS Alaska Forecast Office

Starting point for Radar / Satellite data for Alaska. Forecasts are updated each day, at 5 a.m. and 4 p.m.

OTHER RESOURCES:


• National Weather Service homepage

Starting point for NOAA/NWS weather forecasts

• KNMI Climate Explorer

Browse/Calculate in a huge climatological database


• NASA/GSFC - Atmospheric Composition Data & Information Services Center

Starting point for atmospheric composition satellite data


• NASA/GSFC - Ocean Chlorophyll

Ocean chlorophyll, SST, aerosol optical thickness from various satellite sensors