The MIMOSA routines and user guide
- Mimosa overview
MIMOSA (Modélisation Isentrope du transport Méso-échelle de l'Ozone
Stratosphérique par Advection) high resolution advection model of
potential vorticity (PV) has been developed at Service d'Aéronomie in
the frame of the European Union project METRO (MEridional TRansport of
Ozone in the lower stratosphere) which was part of THESEO (Third
European Stratospheric Experiment on Ozone) 2000 campaigns.
A full description of MIMOSA is given in Hauchecorne et al. [2001].
The model runs on an isentropic surface, starting on an orthogonal grid
in an azimuthal equidistant projection centered at North or South Pole (parallels
are represented as concentric equidistant circles). It covers latitudes
between 90°S and 90°N in the present version. The size of an elementary
grid cell 37*37 km (3 grid points/degree of latitude).
A set of subroutines to run MIMOSA is available at Ether. These are the routines supplied by LATMOS and LPC2E laboratories which should compile and run on the majority of platforms.
To download the routines, please click on this link : MIMOSA_V8.1tar
The current version of MIMOSA routines is 8.1. The user guide contains information on how to compile, run MIMOSA routines and also how to create visualization as maps by using IDL software.
To download the user guide, please click on this link : user guide (in french)