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UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT: Leeds University Three dimensional chemistry transport model (CTM) measurements Version 1

The SLIMCAT Reference Atmosphere for UTLS-Ozone was a set of example output from the SLIMCAT three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM). It includes three-dimensional global fields of chemical (and sometimes meteorological) variables as computed for twelve dates in 1997, near the middle of each month.

This data set includes 12 files, each of them corresponding to one output time near the middle of each month of Year 1997 (12 Jan, 11 Feb, 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 12 May, 11 Jun, 11 Jul, 10 Aug, 19 Sept, 19 Oct, 18 Nov, 18 Dec). Each file contains the calculated 3-D distribution of 37 chemical species or families and 6 meteorological variables. The model used is the SLIMCAT chemistry transport model (CTM). The model was run from October 1991 and forced by the UK Met Office analyses. The model used 18 isentropic levels. The vertical coordinate in the data files is the globally averaged altitude. The real lat/lon-dependent altitude is given in the ALT field recorded in the files. The THETA field gives the real model theta levels (which are constant with latitude/longitude).

Data from Martyn Chipperfield, University of Leeds. NERC Research Programme UTLS-Ozone (Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere) and National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

A newer version 2 dataset was produced in 2009 that supersedes this dataset.

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Date (Publication)
2007-03-13T00:27:01
Date (Creation)
2007-03-13T00:27:01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e52c3665affc48d741d235b734769366
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / e52c3665affc48d741d235b734769366
Author
  NERC UTLS SLIMCAT campaign participants - author
Author
  University of Leeds - author
UK
Author
  Unavailable - Chipperfield, Martyn ( author )
Custodian
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Chipperfield, Martyn ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • UTLS
  • SLIMCAT
  • Model
  • Atmospheric chemistry
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
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Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1997-01-01T00:00:00
End date
1997-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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The SLIMCAT Reference Atmosphere for UTLS-Ozone

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TOMCAT/SLIMCAT Homepage

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Global Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change Research EUROPE's SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE MONITORING

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Atmospheric Chemistry Group TOMCAT/SLIMCAT 3D CTM

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Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

New version of data created November 2009 to include parameter names and units in NetCDF files.

Directory v1.0/ contains original files provided by Martyn Chipperfield in 2002.

Top level slimcat data directory contains updated files.

File identifier
e52c3665affc48d741d235b734769366 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT: Chemistry-Transport Model Output ba4dc1a5a1bbdecaeb99bf957db02dc3
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:00:48
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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