Selected data analysed in the JGR Atmosphere manuscript "Preconditioning of local convective initiation in Central Europe by land–atmosphere coupling: Heated Condensation Framework diagnostics"

Here we upload the data used for the figures in "Preconditioning of local convective initiation in Central Europe by land–atmosphere coupling: Heated Condensation Framework diagnostics". All figures with variables based on the HCF required 3D WRF output data. Therefore, only the data products used in the figures are uploaded. Our hourly WRF simulation data is gained from the University of Hohenheim simulations (WRF831BD) in the frame of the CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study (FPS) on Convective Phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean (CORDEX-FPSCONV) (Ban et al., 2021) in the "Evaluation run with reanalysis forcing" with driving_experiment = "ECMWF-ERAINT, evaluation, r1i1p1". Figure 1: Orography files Figure 2: Seasonal mean of temperature (tas) and precipitation (pr) 2000-2011 Figure 3: Seasonal summer (JJA) average of θBM (a), θdef (b), and θadv (c) at 06 UTC for 2000-2011. (HCF_MEAN_JJA_6am.nc) Figure 4: Summer (JJA) , 6 and 21 UTC , 2000-2011, frequency of a) CI favorable events based on WRF results using the retrospective method (calculated from HCF_CI_Hourly_*_monsum_yseasmean.nc); b) Brightness temperatures ≤ 250 K from NCEP/CPC L3 Half Hourly 4km Global (60S - 60N) Merged IR V1 (Janowiak et al., 2017).(Mask*nc) Figure 5: Summer (JJA) mean diurnal evolution of the ratio of cases with PBL growth advantage (Eadv > 45°) to moisture advantage (Eadv < 45°) over the 2000-2011 period. (HCF_EADV_HOURLY_YSEASMEAN_RATIO_HDMA_*nc) Figure 6: Monthly average of CI favorable events (CIC) for the summer (JJA) months in 2000-2011 period over the ALP-3 domain. (HCF_CI_monsum_timmean.nc) Figure 7: Regional average anomaly of number of CI favorable events (CIC) and the standard deviation per each summer month (JJA) and each year over the 2000-2011 period using the retrospective method. (HCF_CI_monsum.nc) Figure 8: Yearly number of CI favorable event (CIC) anomalies for summer (JJA) season in ALP-3 compared to the CIC 2000-2011 average. (HCF_CI_seasmean.nc) Figure 9, 11, 13: Temperature, root zone soil moisture and specific humidity anomalies in 2003, 2006, 2007 with respect to the 2000-2011 mean. (tas, mrso, huss *anomaly.nc) Figure 10, 12, 14: Monthly number of CI favorable event (CIC) anomalies for June, July and August of 2003, 2006, 2007 in ALP-3 compared to the 2000-2011 average. (HCF_CI_monsum.nc, HCF_CI_monsum_ymonmean.nc) Figure 15: Monthly ratio between PBL growth advantage (Eadv > 45°) and moisture advantage (Eadv < 45°) cases for each selected year and over the 2000-2011 period. (HCF_EADV_SEASMEAN_RATIO_HDMA.nc)