Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers (Mozart)

MOZART is a comprehensive global chemical transport model of atmospheric composition designed to simulate tropospheric chemical and transport processes. It is driven by standard meteorogical fields output from any number of meteorological centers (e.g. the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), or Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (DMAO)) or by fields generated from general circulation models.

MOZART was developed at NCAR, the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, and NOAA/GFDL. There are currently 3 versions. MOZART-2 is the tropospheric version that was published in Horowitz et al. [JGR, 2003]. MOZART-3 is an extension of MOZART-2 into the stratosphere and mesosphere (to be released soon). MOZART-4 is an updated version of MOZART-2, including tropospheric aerosols and other improvements. It is currently being evaluated and will be released Jan 2006.