Chemical forecasting in support of field missions
Chemical transport forecasts have become essential tools for tropospheric aircraft missions over the last few years. The use of these state-of-the-art models to define mission objectives, flight-planning, as well as to interpret observations allows to directly test atmospheric processes in a context where flight hours are often limited.
We have designed an interactive web interface to visualize and disseminate GEOS-Chem and GEOS-5 model forecasts in support of five major field missions: ITCT2K2 (April-May 2002), INTEX-A (July-August 2004), INTEX-B (March-April 2006), ARCTAS (spring and summer 2008), and HIPPO (2009-2010).
Here here a link to our current interactive web interface HIPPO which displays results from the GEOS-5 chemical forecasts: http://coco.atmos.washington.edu/cgi-bin/ion-p?page=hippo.ion
Currently we are working on the upcoming NOMADSS (Nitrogen, Oxidants, Mercury and Aerosol Distributions, Sources and Sinks) NSF experiment. This field campaign will use the C-130 aircraft and will be based in Tennessee for a 6 week period: June 1- July 15 2013. GEOS-5 chemical forecasts: http://coco.atmos.washington.edu/cgi-bin/ion-p?page=nomadss.ion
People
Lyatt Jaeglé, Professor
Funding
This work was funded by NASA and NSF.
