MOZART (model)

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MOZART (Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers) is a chemistry transport model (CTM) developed jointly by the (US) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-Met) to simulate changes in ozone concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere. MOZART was designed to simulate tropospheric chemical and transport processes, but has been extended into the stratosphere and mesosphere. It can be driven by standard meteorological fields from, e.g.,

• the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
• the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
• the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (DMAO)

or by fields generated from general circulation models.

Contents 1 MOZART development 2 See also 3 External links 4 Notes

[edit] MOZART development

MOZART sources can be compiled for a variety of computing platforms. Three versions of MOZART are currently available (contact the development team):

• MOZART2, the troposphere-only version published in Horowitz et al (2003)^[1].
• MOZART3 extends MOZART2 into the stratosphere and mesosphere.
• MOZART4 improves MOZART2's handling of, e.g., tropospheric aerosols.

[edit] See also

• National Center for Atmospheric Research
• chemical transport model
• Ozone depletion
• Meteorology

[edit] External links

• UCAR's MOZART page
• MPI-Met's MOZART page

[edit] Notes