MOZART (model)

MOZART (model)

MOZART (Model for OZone And Related chemical Tracers) is a chemistry transport model (CTM) developed jointly by the (US) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-Met) to simulate changes in ozone concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere. MOZART was designed to simulate tropospheric chemical and transport processes, but has been extended into the stratosphere and mesosphere. It can be driven by standard meteorological fields from, e.g.,

• the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
• the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
• the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (DMAO)

or by fields generated from general circulation models.