ARCTAS: GEOS-5 Chemical Forecasts and GEOS-Chem Near Real Time Simulations
Harvard University
Daniel Jacob, Bob Yantosca, Philippe Le Sager, Jenny Fisher, Chris Holmes, Justin Parrella
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Arlindo da Silva, Eric Nielsen, Steven Pawson, Peter Colarco, Huisheng Bian, Mian Chin, Bryan Duncan, Qing Liang
University of Washington
Lyatt Jaeglé

Announcements
The ARCTAS mission is now over. The GEOS-5 forecasts will continue to be produced for a little while longer, but will end soon. The Harvard GEOS-Chem NRT simulation will continue to be produced.

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GSFC/Harvard GEOS-5 forecasts and assimilation products
GEOS-5 forecast browser:
GEOS-Chem Near Real Time Assimilation browser:
  Latest NRT date: 20090120

QUICKSTART GUIDE

GEOS-5 forecast browser: Choose a date on the dropdown menu in the table above and then click on "Start forecast browser". The dates are indicated in GMT time. There are two forecasts each day: a 00 GMT forecast and a 12 GMT forecast. The forecast browser will allow you to view the forecast you selected. Simply press the "PLOT" button to see maps of the various tracers calculated with the GEOS-5 chemical forecasts (CO, aerosols, tagged tracers, meteorological fields). You can then adjust the day, hour, tracer, latitude, longitude, altitude and plot the results again. You also have the options of generating an animation or a postscript file. The curtain display option together with the 'Curtain Plot' plot type allows you to sample the forecast fields along a proposed flight track. If you select a vertical level instead of 'Curtain Plot' and select the curtain plot option, the program will display the flight track on a map. You also have the option of displaying satellite ground tracks for the day/time selected.

GEOS-Chem Near-real-time simulation browser: Here you can view output from the daily near-real-time simulations which are generated with the GEOS-Chem model. You can choose to plot mixing ratios (CO, NOx,O3, HNO3, PAN, acetone, sulfate, dust, sea-salt), columns (CO, NO2, HCHO, O3), or concentrations (OH, NO2, NO). You have the same plotting options as for the GEOS-5 forecast browser.

For more information on how to use this interface, please go to About this Interface.