Wageningen University
Meteorology and Air Quality Department


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CarbonTracker Europe includes access to the following model and observational data. Please see Citation for CarbonTracker Europe usage policy and citation.

Users may find the NASA/GISS Panoply NetCDF Viewer helpful for working with CarbonTracker NetCDF files.

  • 3-D Mole Fractions
    This is a link to our FTP server, where we have made 3-hourly 3-D CO2 mole fraction fields available in NetCDF format for others to use in their work. Note that due to storage constraints, this currently only includes the year 2007. Earlier years or specific months can easily be added upon request

  • Various Fluxes
    This is a link to our FTP server, where we have made a set of CarbonTracker fluxes in various formats available. This includes TransCom fluxes, ecoregion fluxes, weekly, monthly, and global average 1x1 degree fluxes, and even 3-hourly global surface fluxes. It is all available in NetCDF format for others to use in their work. Images of the contents of these files are included on the website under Flux Maps.

  • Assimilated Observations
    This is a link to our FTP server, where the observations as they have been preprocessed for use in the CarbonTracker Europe assimilation system are available in NetCDF format. Images of the contents of these files are included on the website under CO2Time Series. Please note that pre-processed data are NOT actual data. Users should contact the original data providers for access to the actual observations. Please refer to Collaborators for contact information.

  • !!! Preliminary non-optimized 2008 data !!!
    As a special service to people running models for the very recent time period, we have made some limited 2008 datasets available from CarbonTracker. Mind you, these are not from 2008 optimizations, but instead were run using climatological fluxes derived from the previous years. Combined with the actual 2008 meteorology this still gives a decent set of fluxes, and a decent set of 3-D mixing ratios to work with as boundary conditions for your regional model. Stay in touch with us to know when the real 2008 datasets are available though!

  • Source Code
    This is a link to the CarbonTracker Europe source code. The main body of CarbonTracker Europe is the TM5 two-way nested model written in Fortran-90. Additional data needed to run CarbonTracker Europe yourself can be made available upon request.

  • Auxiliary information
    • Our inversion regions are defined in the regions.nc file.
    • The set of "extended" regions formed by post-aggregation from the 22 TransCom regions is defined in the postagg_definitions.nc file.

  • Archives
    This is a link to the CarbonTracker Europe Archive that includes 3-D mole fractions, weekly fluxes, source code, web figures, and documentation from previous releases.

  • NOAA ESRL Observations
    This is a link to an FTP server, where all NOAA ESRL atmospheric CO2 observations are available in text file format.

    The NOAA ESRL Carbon Cycle Interactive Atmospheric Data Visualization (IADV) website is a data exploration tool that allows users to
    • view all data including near real-time preliminary measurement results.
    • obtain details about each sampling location.
    • manipulate and compare NOAA ESRL data sets.
    • create custom graphs.
    • view their plots on-line with an option to save figures locally for later use.
  • Other Observations
    Users interested in obtaining other observational data used in CarbonTracker Europe should directly contact the measurement laboratory. CarbonTracker Europe collaborators are listed in Collaborators.



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