Dataset for "entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud"

This dataset accompanies the paper

Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary cumulus cloud (2025).Jingzi Huang, Henry C. Burridge, Stephan de Roode and Maarten van ReeuwijkQuarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1002/qj.4920

Please reference the paper and the dataset if you make use of this data.

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The main directory contains the following files and folders:loaddata.m:      loads the simulation data.plotdata.m:      plots the figures in the paper.functions:       a folder with auxiliary MATLAB functions.figures:         a folder containing all the figure files in the paperdata:            a folder containing the raw simulation data

Data folder-----------

Instantaneous data (x,z,t):b.mat:           buoyancy fieldql.mat:             liquid water specific humidity fieldw.mat:           vertical velocity fieldt.mat:           time

instantaneous cloud-averaged data (z,t):bint.mat:        cloud-averaged buoyancywint.mat:        cloud-averaged vertical velocityqlint.mat:       cloud-averaged liquid water specific humidityAint.mat:        cloud area

Reynolds-averaged data (r,z):bav.mat:         buoyancy fieldpav.mat:         pressure fieldqlav.mat:        liquid water specific humidity fielduav.mat:         radial velocity fieldwav.mat:         vertical velocity fieldr_cld.mat:       cloud boundaryr_co:            updraft boundary

conditional data (z,t):t_con.mat:       sampling time for conditional datacldfld.txt:      for entire cloud, already loaded as cldfld.matcldupfld.txt:    for updraft, already loaded as cldupfld.mat

environmental data file (z):env_values.txt:  environmental values

simulation parameters for spbase:plume_dA.nc.620: plume statisticssimparams_620:   parameters file