RETRO model results

These data sets contain the "harmonized" output from the three global chemistry transport or chemistry climate models which have simulated the entire 41-year period from 1960-2000.

 

Data are available from the following models:
ECHAM5-MOZ: contact m.schultz @ fz-juelich.de and sebastian.rast @ zmaw.de
LMDz-INCA: contact sophie.szopa @ lsce.ipsl.fr
TM4: contact twan.van.noije @ knmi.nl

 

If you want to use these data please contact the respective model owners before submitting a publication or showing results in public. Depending on the role that these data play in your work we expect either co-authorship or acknowledgement in your publication. Please also acknowledge "the RETRO program (EVK2-CT-2002-00170)". We assume no liability for any false conclusions derived from the use of our model results.

 

Selected cross sections and maps from the RETRO model simulations can be viewed at the RETRO-AEROCOM plot interface.

 

All files are in netcdf format and are documented according to the CF-1.0 standard. Use the ncdump tool available from unidata.ucar.edu if you want to analyse the contents of these files.

 

The set-up and results of the RETRO reanalysis simulations are described in the report D4-4. As an example, the figure below shows the time series of summertime boundary layer ozone over European mid-latitudes.

 

Time series of summertime boundary layer ozone concentrations 1960-2000 over European midlatitudes (45-55 deg. N)

 

Report on the reanalysis simulations (Deliverable 4-4, pdf, 66 pages, 6.1 MB)