NWP model dataset used in "Urban multi-season sensible heat fluxes from multiple large aperture scintillometry paths: variability and operational numerical weather prediction skill"

These data are used in Chapter 3, “Urban multi-season sensible heat fluxes from multiple large aperture scintillometry paths: variability and operational numerical weather prediction skill” in the University of Reading thesis "Urban surface-atmosphere exchanges: scintillometry observations and NWP evaluation" submitted by Beth Saunders, 2024. The NWP (Met Office UKV model) dataset consists of 109 days across 2016-2018. Some of the experimental setup is also described in Saunders et. al 2024: “Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: demonstration in London”, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4837. File names and subdirectories are named in the format year + day of year (DOY). The UKV data for the IOP days are from the operational runs, initialised at 21:00 UTC, with model output analysed from 00:00 UTC the following day for the period when observations are available. The operational UKV’s diagnostics output is on the hour. Filenames are presented in the following example format: MOUKV_FC2016050121Z_m01s00i002_LON_BCT.nc This example would be from the UKV model (‘MOUKV’), from a run initialising at 2100 UTC on the 1st May 2016 (FC2016050121Z) for the variable ‘U component of wind’ (identified by the stash code ‘m01s00i002’), with 3 by 3 grid boxes overlaying the ‘BCT’ site as described by Saunders et al. 2024 (‘LON_BCT’). The following stash codes, used by Saunders et al. 2024, are available: m01s00i002: U component of wind m01s00i003: V component of wind m01s00i010: Specific humidity m01s00i024: Surface temperature m01s00i025: Boundary layer depth m01s00i090: Total aerosol m01s00i150: W component of wind m01s00i266: Bulk clod fraction m01s00i408: Pressure at theta levels m01s00i409: Surface pressure m01s01i235: Total downward surface shortwave flux m01s02i201: Outgoing shortwave radiative flux (top of atmosphere) m01s02i207: Incoming shortwave radiative flux (top of atmosphere) m01s03i026: Roughness length m01s03i202: Heat flux from surface to deep soil level 1 m01s03i216: Boundary layer heat fluxes m01s03i217: Surface sensible heat flux m01s03i219: X component of surface and boundary layer wind stress m01s03i220: Y component of surface and boundary layer wind stress m01s03i222: Boundary layer total moisture fluxes m01s03i225: 10-meter wind U component m01s03i226: 10-meter wind V component m01s03i234: Surface latent heat flux m01s03i236: Temperature at 1.5 m m01s03i245: Relative humidity at 1.5 m m01s03i281: Visibility t 1.5 m (including precipitation) m01s03i290: Surface sensible heat flux on tiles m01s03i316: Surface temperature on tiles m01s03i321: Canopy water on tiles m01s03i476: Combined boundary layer type m01s04i203: Large scale rainfall rate m01s08i225: Deep soil temperature after hydrology m01s09i203: Low cloud amount m01s09i204: Medium cloud amount m01s09i205: High cloud amount m01s09i217: Total cloud amount m01s16i004: Temperature on theta levels m01s16i222: Pressure at mean sea level