Evaluation of high-resolution WRF simulation in urban areas - Effect of different physics schemes on simulation performance in the Rhine-Main-Neckar area

This dataset contains data sampled from a WRF sensitivity study saved in NetCDF format. The study was run over 4 months of the year 2020. The folders contain the following data:

File
Datasets
Description

wrf_met_sample_full.nc
all
WRF meteorology sampled at the 19 weather stations in the simulation domain

wrf_met_sample_full_and_quant.nc
all
As above, but resampled onto the measured meteorology and with summary statistics

wrf_met_sample_full_ucmheights.nc
only 2020_12
Same as wrf_met_sample_full.nc but only for the run using the vertical layer distribution of UCM

wrf_met_sample_full_and_quant_ucmheights.nc
only 2020_12
Same as wrf_met_sample_full_and_quant.nc but only for the run using the vertical layer distribution of UCM

wrf_pblh_sample_full.nc
all
WRF PBLH (and custom PBLH_RIB) sampled at the 2 radio sonde stations in the simulation domain

wrf_pblh_sample_full_and_quant.nc
all
As above, but resampled onto the measured meteorology and with summary statistics

era5_met_sample_full.nc
all
ERA5 meteorology sampled at the 19 weather stations in the simulation domain

era5_met_sample_full_and_quant.nc
all
As above, but resampled onto the measured meteorology and with summary statistics

era5_pblh_sample_full_and_quant.nc
all
WRF PBLH (and custom PBLH_RIB) sampled at the 2 radio sonde stations in the simulation domain, resampled onto the measured meteorology and with summary statistics

Each of these files contains the samples and statistics as NetCDF Variables. These Variables have multiple dimensions, which describe the individual datapoints. For the WRF samples, these dimensions are:

Dimension
Description

Time
time since start of simulation

station_id
the ID of the station where the sample was taken (meteo - length 19, PBLH - length 2)

pbl
Planetary Boundary Layer scheme (Bou-Lac / MYJ / YSU)

lsm
Land Surface Model scheme (N / NMP)

slm
Surface Layer Model scheme (MM5 / MO)

urb
Urban Parametrization scheme (SLUCM / BEP)

Not all combinations between different simulation schemes exist, so some values in the NetCDF Variables are NaNs.