Precipitation, low-level jet, and geopotential height data for analyzing sources of predictability in the US northern Great Plains

Dec 15, 2021

Precipitation, low-level jet, and geopotential height data for analyzing sources of predictability in the US northern Great Plains

Carlos M. Carrillo and Francisco Muñoz-Arriola

Motivation

The data presented here was used to investigate the uskills of precipitation in the US northern Great Plains, and it can be cited as described below. The original data for producing this data is from the Climate Forecast System (CFS) retrospective reanalysis and reforecast as well as precipitation data from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Also, gridded data is from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP).

License

Creative Commons CC-BY

Disclaimer

The data provided in the files is provided as is. Despite our best efforts at filtering out potential issues, some information could be erroneous.

Description of the dataset

Files are provided with the following features:

List of cases: 

            files.0.00.dy.txt

Low-level jet (or the GP-LLJ index)

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/eof/cfs/0.35.cases/

Master file: LLJ_pc_corr_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data

            from CFS models,

                   eof1.v850.cfs.1982-2009.dy.tar

        pc1.v850.cfs.1982-2009.dy.tar

       from NARR model,

        pc1.vwnd.narr.1982-2009.tar

The geopotential height (or CGT index):

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/eof/cfs/0.35.cases/

Master file: Z200_mode_corr_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data

            xt-reco-z200.Full.123.z200.cfs.1982-2009.12-60.tar

     xt-reco-z200.Full.z200.narr.1982-2009.bin.tar

Precipitation at the US Great Plains:

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/clim/yrcases

Master file: prec_corr_cfs_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data:

            prec.cfs.MW.1982-2009.tar

     prec.cpc.MW.1982-2009.tar

Correlation patterns:

     Precipitation: PREC.NGP.corr.txt

     LLJ: LLJ.pcs.corr.narr.pdf.txt

     Z200: Z200.pcs.corr.narr.pdf.txt

Disclaimer

The data provided in the files is provided as is. Despite our best efforts at filtering out potential issues, some information could be erroneous.

Description of the dataset

Files are provided with the following features:

List of cases: 

            files.0.00.dy.txt

Low-level jet (or the GP-LLJ index)

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/eof/cfs/0.35.cases/

Master file: LLJ_pc_corr_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data

            from CFS models,

                  eof1.v850.cfs.1982-2009.dy.tar

        pc1.v850.cfs.1982-2009.dy.tar

       from NARR model,

        pc1.vwnd.narr.1982-2009.tar

The geopotential height (or CGT index):

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/eof/cfs/0.35.cases/

Master file: Z200_mode_corr_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data

            xt-reco-z200.Full.123.z200.cfs.1982-2009.12-60.tar

     xt-reco-z200.Full.z200.narr.1982-2009.bin.tar

Precipitation at the US Great Plains:

Originally located at /home/cmc542/2019/sum-pred/clim/yrcases

Master file: prec_corr_cfs_1D_pdf_full.m

With input data:

            prec.cfs.MW.1982-2009.tar

     prec.cpc.MW.1982-2009.tar

Correlation patterns:

     Precipitation: PREC.NGP.corr.txt

     LLJ: LLJ.pcs.corr.narr.pdf.txt

     Z200: Z200.pcs.corr.narr.pdf.txt

Credit

Carlos M. Carrillo and Francisco Muñoz-Arriola, 2021: “Sources of Subseasonal Predictability of Rainfall in the Northern Great Plains”, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. In review.

Grant funding

This research was funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and the UNL’s Layman Award.