Global Model Evaluation
IGAC/SPARC Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI) working group on improved evaluation of chemistry-climate models using in-situ research aircraft data
Members of the working group:
Ken Aikin (NOAA)
Gao Chen (NASA)
Ron Cohen (UC Berkeley)
Jim Crawford (NASA)
Louisa Emmons (NCAR)
David Fahey (NOAA)
Klaus-Dirk Gottschaldt (DLR)
Heidi Huntrieser (DLR)
Jean-Francois Lamarque (NCAR)
Hans Schlager (DLR)
Martin Schultz (FZ Jülich)
Hiroshi Tanimoto (NIES)
Simone Tilmes (NCAR)
Contacts
Veronika Eyring - (DLR) Co-chair, CCMI
Tom Ryerson - (NOAA) Working group leader for in-situ aircraft measurements
This working group addresses the following tasks:
- Develop a methodology to evaluate global CCM simulations using integrated in-situ observations from research aircraft.
- Improve online access to observational datasets that have been evaluated for quality and formatted for consistency to facilitate model-data intercomparison studies.
- Develop diagnostics to identify composite datasets with climatological value and provide these formatted datasets to the community.
- Report analyses on the CCMI Observations for model evaluation.
More information: Chemistry-Climate Model Initiative (CCMI)
Airborne data
NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division data
NOAA WP-3D flights from chemically-instrumented field missions from 1999 through 2010.
NASA data (URL pending from Gao Chen)
DLR data (URL pending from Heidi or Veronika)
NSF HIPPO data
The HIPPO (HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations) study of the carbon cycle and greenhouse gases measured meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and aerosol constituents along transects from approximately pole-to-pole over the Pacific Ocean using the NSF GV aircraft. Five missions took place in different seasons from 2009 through 2011.
