Norwegian Institute for Air Research


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 measurements at the station. 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: I 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., for use in peer-reviewed publications.

Backward modeling products are available for the following months:

Cimone, 2001 01
Cimone, 2001 02
Cimone, 2001 03
Cimone, 2001 04
Cimone, 2001 05
Cimone, 2001 06
Cimone, 2001 07
Cimone, 2001 08
Cimone, 2001 09
Cimone, 2001 10
Cimone, 2001 11
Cimone, 2001 12
Cimone, 2002 01
Cimone, 2002 02
Cimone, 2002 03
Cimone, 2002 04
Cimone, 2002 05
Cimone, 2002 06
Cimone, 2002 07
Cimone, 2002 08
Cimone, 2002 09
Cimone, 2002 10
Cimone, 2002 11
Cimone, 2002 12
Cimone, 2003 01
Cimone, 2003 02
Cimone, 2003 03
Cimone, 2003 04
Cimone, 2003 05
Cimone, 2003 06
Cimone, 2003 07
Cimone, 2003 08
Cimone, 2003 09
Cimone, 2003 10
Cimone, 2003 11
Cimone, 2003 12
Cimone, 2004 01
Cimone, 2004 02
Cimone, 2004 03
Cimone, 2004 04
Cimone, 2004 05
Cimone, 2004 06
Cimone, 2004 07
Cimone, 2004 08
Cimone, 2004 09
Cimone, 2004 10
Cimone, 2004 11
Cimone, 2004 12
Cimone, 2005 01
Cimone, 2005 02
Cimone, 2005 03
Cimone, 2005 04
Cimone, 2005 05
Cimone, 2005 06
Cimone, 2005 07
Cimone, 2005 08
Cimone, 2005 09
Cimone, 2005 10
Cimone, 2005 11
Cimone, 2005 12
Cimone, 2006 01
2006 02 is missing because of ECMWF model changes.
Cimone, 2006 03
Cimone, 2006 04
Cimone, 2006 05
Cimone, 2006 06
Cimone, 2006 07
Cimone, 2006 08
Cimone, 2006 09
Cimone, 2006 10
Cimone, 2006 11
Cimone, 2006 12
Cimone, 2007 01
Cimone, 2007 02
Cimone, 2007 03
Cimone, 2007 04
Cimone, 2007 05
Cimone, 2007 06
Cimone, 2007 07
Cimone, 2007 08
Cimone, 2007 09
Cimone, 2007 10
Cimone, 2007 11
Cimone, 2007 12
Cimone, 2008 01
Cimone, 2008 02

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