EOS MLS Plots and Animations
Choose from the following plots:
Stratospheric & Mesospheric -- Upper Tropospheric -- Meteorological -- Animations
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- Stratospheric EqL/θ plots:
Daily MLS H2O, O3, CO, N2O, HNO3, ClO, HCl, OH, and HCN
equivalent latitude (EqL) zonal means plotted as a function of
potential temperature (θ), with overlaid contours of scaled potential
vorticity. |
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Daily isentropic maps of MLS (left to right) ozone (ppmv), nitric acid (ppbv), water vapor (ppmv) and carbon monoxide (ppbv) in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere, with white overlaid contours showing the tropopause (4.5 'PVU') and black overlaid contours showing the bottom of the polar vortex in the winter hemisphere. |
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- Stratospheric Polar projection plots for NH and SH:
Daily plots of
a) temperature, N2O, H2O, HNO3, O3, ClO, tropopause pressure
and HCl at θ = 490K (~18 km, 56 hPa)
b) temperature, N2O, H2O, HNO3, O3, ClO, OH and HCl at
θ = 850K (~32 km, 10 hPa)
c) temperature, H2O, O3 and CO at θ = 1700K (~50 km, 10 hPa)
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- Stratospheric Cylindrical projection plots:
Daily plots of
a) temperature, N2O, H2O, HNO3, O3, ClO, tropopause pressure and
HCl at θ = 490K (~18 km, 56 hPa)
b) temperature, N2O, H2O, HNO3, O3, ClO, OH and HCl at
θ = 850K (~32 km, 10 hPa)
c) temperature, H2O, O3 and CO at θ = 1700K (~50 km, 10 hPa)
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Daily plots of temperature, CO, H2O, O3, HCl, OH at θ = 2700K
(~60 km, 0.2 hPa). Includes cylindrical projection plots and polar
plots for NH and SH |
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These are global maps of weekly-average MLS
measurements of upper tropospheric cloud ice, relative
humidity with respect to ice, watervapor, CO, O3
and temperature. Included for comparison are maps
for the same period of GEOS-CHEM model (driven by
GMAO GEOS-4 meteorological data) near-real-time
output for CO and O3, and GMAO GEOS-4 first
look output for water vapor. Maps are currently
available for MLS v01.51 and v01.52 data at 100,
147, and 215 hPa pressure surfaces.
White contours show potential vorticity
value (3.5x106 Km2kg-1s-1) indicative of the dynamical
tropopause. Black contours on the cloud ice
maps show GMAO outgoing longwave radiation
(OLR) value of 240 W/m2. Black contours on the
other maps show MLS cloud ice values indicative of
deep convection (0.3 mg/m3 at 100 hPa, 1 mg/m3
at 147 hPa, and 3 mg/m3 at 215 hPa).
The MLS data have been screened to exclude
situations where clouds impact the
results. The v1.51 CO values at 215 hPa are
known to be ~2x large relative to correlative data.
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- Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere daily maps of GPH,
windspeed, tropopause, PV, cold point temperature, diabatic
heating rates, 200 hPa divergence, and 200 hPa velocity potential
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