CLaMS - Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere#

Contact person

Felix Plöger

Description#

CLaMS (Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere) is a modular chemistry transport model (CTM) system developed at Research Centre Jülich, Germany. CLaMS was first described by McKenna et al (2000a,b) and was expanded into three dimensions by Konopka et al (2004). CLaMS has been employed in various European aircraft field campaigns including THE-SEO, EUPLEX, TROCCINOX, SCOUT-O3, RECONCILE and STRATOCLIM, PHILEAS with a focus on simulating ozone depletion and water vapour transport. Major strengths of CLaMS in comparison to other CTMs are

  • its low diffusive Lagrangian transport scheme with the ability to reproduce small-scale structures and gradients of trace species

  • its applicability for reverse domain filling studies

  • its anisotropic mixing scheme

  • its integrability with arbitrary observational

  • its comprehensive chemistry scheme

The model has already successfully completed a sprint as part of the natESM project. Findings and solutions from the sprint can be found in the documentation.

Model(s)#

CLaMS v2.0 :GNU GPLv3.0 - restricted access. More information here.

Programming language(s)#

FORTRAN
Python

Tags#

#optional #atmosphere #warmworld #langrangian transport #chemistry #transport #mixing

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