Attached are the data from my REACT4C simulations. I believe you have the REACT4C inventory from David Lee already. The simulations are for the base case (no shift in air traffic altitude) for the year 2006. 

I deliberately did not rename the data files so that I am hopefully able to keep an overview over what I have send you.

The filenames can be understood in the following way:

24_hor15 – indicates the cover due to contrail cirrus of all ages and all optical depth, overlapped with the maximum random overlap scheme

 

40_hor04 - indicates the cover due to contrail cirrus of all ages and optical depth above 0.02, overlapped with the maximum random overlap scheme. Note that cover due to contrails with optical depth larger 0.02 relates much better to radiative forcing than cover due to contrails of any optical depth.

 

71_hor15 – indicates the SW forcing due to contrail cirrus

 

71_hor16 – indicates the LW forcing due to contrail cirrus – Please note that LW forcing is later corrected by multiplying with 1.25. This is due to the fact that contrail cirrus LW forcing is underestimated by the radiation scheme. –(I usually didn’t do the correction in the plots but in the final numbers only – so plots will look slightly different to those that were in the REACT4C report).

 

71_hor15u16 should be the contrail cirrus RF inclusive the correction in LW forcing –I produced this file extra for people who aren’t interested in the details and I hope the file is ok as it is.

 

120monats_mit – means that I have averaged over 10 years

The rest of the filename is of interest only to me.

I have also included some plots so that you can check if you read in data properly – I haven’t bothered to find the colorbars – hope you don’t mind.

 

The data have T31 resolution – 96 longitudes and 48 latitudes.

Longitudes are varying first (0-->356.25) and then latitude (-88.1-->88.1). Gridpoint distance 3.75.

At the end of the file there are two lines with further information. First line gives the global average and the next line some regional averages. Please do not worry about those numbers. 

I hope you will be able to get on with the data.

 

The air traffic inventory you should have already. I have not included optical depth because it is a 3D field. If you would want to have an optical depth integrated over all levels then you would need to apply a vertical overlap. I have only given you averages but I have also variances and number of independent samples – just in case you need it.

 

I have included only 10 year averages for now. If you get on with this, then I would need to produce seasonal averages or something like that since I have only 120 monthly mean files available at the moment.