Data associated with the publication: Jordan, A.K. et al. (2020) Strength of Linkages Between Dust and Circulation Over North Africa: results from a coupled modeling system with active dust. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres

This archive contains output from NASA Unified Weather Research and Forecasting (NU-WRF) model simulations reported in Jordan et al. (2020). The simulations are designed to examine hypothesized dust-atmosphere feedbacks in Northern Africa, in which dust in the atmosphere might act to modify the atmospheric conditions relevant to lofting of dust from the surface. To test this hypothesis, NU-WRF simulations were performed that coupled the WRF atmospheric model with the Goddard Chemistry Aerosols Radiation and Transport (GOCART) model. These simulations were performed with dust emissions on (“Dust On”) and dust emissions off (“Dust Off”), using a dust emission scheme that is responsive to surface soil moisture conditions and near-surface meteorology. Simulations were performed for the pre-rainy and rainy season (March-October) for fifteen simulation years (2002-2016). Model output was stored every six hours of simulation time. For archiving purposes, we have aggregated to monthly time-of-day averages, as this was the timescale of analysis reported in the paper.