A global simulation of tropospheric ozone and related tracers: Description and evaluation of MOZART, version 2

We have developed a global three‐dimensional chemical transport model called Model of Ozone and Related Chemical Tracers (MOZART), version 2. This model, which will be made available to the community, is built on the framework of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Model of Atmospheric Transport and Chemistry (MATCH) and can easily be driven with various meteorological inputs and model resolutions. In this work, we describe the standard configuration of the model, in which the model is driven by meteorological inputs every 3 hours from the middle atmosphere version of the NCAR Community Climate Model (MACCM3) and uses a 20‐min time step and a horizontal resolution of 2.8° latitude × 2.8°…

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  National Science Foundation
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  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• UO
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign