UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT: Chemistry-Transport Model Output

The SLIMCAT (Single Layer Isentropic Model of Chemistry And Transport) Reference Atmosphere for UTLS-Ozone was a set of example output from the SLIMCAT three-dimensional chemical transport model (CTM). It includes three-dimensional global fields of chemical (and sometimes meteorological) variables as computed for twelve dates in 1997, near the middle of each month.

This data set includes 12 files, each of them corresponding to one output time near the middle of each month of Year 1997 (12 Jan, 11 Feb, 13 Mar, 12 Apr, 12 May, 11 Jun, 11 Jul, 10 Aug, 19 Sept, 19 Oct, 18 Nov, 18 Dec). Each file contains the calculated 3-D distribution of 37 chemical species or families and 6 meteorological variables. The model used is the SLIMCAT chemistry transport model (CTM). The model was run from October 1991 and forced by the UK Met Office analyses. The model used 18 isentropic levels. The vertical coordinate in the data files is the globally averaged altitude. The real lat/lon-dependent altitude is given in the ALT field recorded in the files. The THETA field gives the real model theta levels (which are constant with latitude/longitude).

Data from Martyn Chipperfield, University of Leeds. NERC Research Programme UTLS-Ozone (Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere) and National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

Date (Publication): 2002-12-10T02:40:01

Date (Creation): 2002-12-10T02:40:01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ba4dc1a5a1bbdecaeb99bf957db02dc3

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / ba4dc1a5a1bbdecaeb99bf957db02dc3

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC UTLS SLIMCAT campaign participants		unknown	Author
University of Leeds		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Chipperfield, Martyn	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Penkett, Rebecca	Unavailable	pointofContact
Unavailable	Rogers, Helen	Unavailable	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

UTLS
SLIMCAT

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1997-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 1997-12-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/ba4dc1a5a1bbdecaeb99bf957db02dc3	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://homepages.see.leeds.ac.uk/~lecmc/tomcat.htm	TOMCAT/SLIMCAT Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/icas/research-themes/atmospheric-chemistry-and-aerosols/groups/atmospheric-chemistry/tomcatslimcat/	Atmospheric Chemistry Group TOMCAT/SLIMCAT 3D CTM

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.caribic-atmospheric.com/	Global Atmospheric Composition and Climate Change Research EUROPE's SOLUTION FOR GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE MONITORING

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/slimcat/slimutls/metadata.html	UTLS-Ozone SLIMCAT Metadata

Hierarchy level: Series

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: ba4dc1a5a1bbdecaeb99bf957db02dc3 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-02-25T03:26:04

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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