Community Data

This page lists ACD data that is available from NCAR's Community Data Portal (short registration required) as well as other institutional data sets of interest to the community.

ACD Data Sets

Experiment/Title Type Download Technical Support Description
MIRAGE Aircraft, Ground & Models Data Catalog Sasha Madronich: sasha@ucar.edu MIRAGE-Mexico was a field campaign designed to examine the chemical and physical transformations of gases and aerosols in the polluted outflow from Mexico City
TOPSE Aircraft Download Louisa Emmons: emmons@ucar.edu Tropospheric Ozone about the Spring Equinox (TOPSE) mission is to investigate the chemical and dynamic evolution of tropospheric chemical composition over mid- to high-latitude continental North America during the winter/spring transition, with particular emphasis on the springtime ozone maximum in the troposphere.
Model Evaluation Data Aircraft Download Louisa Emmons: emmons@ucar.edu These data sets include measurements that were part of aircraft campaigns, for the most part sponsored by NASA/GTE, NASA/UARP and NSF/NCAR. The NetCDF files contain 1-minute merged datasets, containing all available measurements, for each flight. These files have been created primarily for use in chemical model evaluation.
BVOC Ground/Laboratory Download Christine Wiedinmyer: christin@ucar.edu The measurement and modeling of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOC) are essential for understanding regional and global atmospheric chemistry, carbon cycles, and climate. For more than 40 years, research has been conducted to measure emissions of carbon- containing compounds (BVOC) from vegetation. This web site will provide a database of BVOC emission measurements and modeling parameters that is being developed by members of the biosphere-atmosphere interactions research community.
MOZART Model Download Louisa Emmons: emmons@ucar.edu MOZART is a global 3-D chemical transport model driven by offline meteorological fields, developed at NCAR, MPI-Meteorology, and NOAA/GFDL.
MEGAN Model Download Christine Wiedinmyer: christin@ucar.edu The Model of Emissions of Gases and Aerosols from Nature (MEGAN), was developed by Dr. Alex Guenther and Dr. Christine Wiedinmyer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). MEGAN is a modeling system for estimating emission and uptake (exchange) of gases between the atmosphere and terrestrial vegetation and soils (Nature). MEGAN uses an approach similar to previous models (e.g., BEIS, BEIS2 and GLOBEIS) but is intended to be easier to use and update and to incorporate into regional and global chemistry and transport models.
MOPITT CO Satellite Download David Edwards: edwards@ucar.edu Raw output data from the instrument supplemented by time, spacecraft position and attitude information, calibrated radiances,and gridded global CO and CH4 distributions.

Other Data Sets

Experiment Type Description
NASA Tropospheric Integrated Chemistry Data Center Aircraft, Model, Satellite Archival site for numerious experiments
NASA Atmospheric Composition Data & Informaton Services Center (ACDICS) Satellite Archival site for numerious experiments. Also contains data processing tools.