Welcome to CGRER's forecast page for the ARCTAS Campaign




Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites (ARCTAS)
field campaign is taking place from April 1 to April 21, 2008.

The Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
at the University of Iowa is providing daily chemical weather forecasts in support of this experiment.


This is a collaboration with David Streets ( Argonne National Laboratory),
Giuseppe Calori and Alessio D'Allura (ARIANET s.r.l., Italy) and
Youhua Tang (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC).


The University of Iowa's STEM regional chemical transport modeling simulations are performed at the 60km resolution.
The Weather Research & Forecasting model (WRF) provides meteorological fields to drive these calculations.

The real time biomass burning emissions and boundary conditions are provided by the RAQMS Modeling Group
(Robert P. Pierce, NOAA) and (Jassim A. Al-Saadi, NASA Langley Research Center)

Further details of the emissions inventory are presented here



Interactive Forecast Viewers
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ARCTAS 60km Tracer Domain
ARCTAS KML files
B200 CALIPSO Underpass Curtain files


If you want to study previous day's forecasts then these forecasts may be more helpful.
Earlier KML files


Please contact: Dr. Gregory Carmichael, or Bhupesh Adhikary, or
Sarika Kulkarni,or Chao Wei, or Jeremie Moen for further analyzed products.


Contact phone numbers for people during the ARCTAS Mission