Confronting Large-Eddy Simulations with Stereo Camera Data by means of reconstructed hemispheric Cloud Size Distributions

Dataset to produce the results of the publication: "Confronting Large-Eddy Simulations with Stereo Camera Data by means of reconstructed hemispheric Cloud Size Distributions". This dataset supports the findings presented in the publication and includes comprehensive resources for replicating its analysis and visualization. 

 The dataset encompasses:

Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation (DALES) Data

Configuration files

Selected simulation output data

Image Data

Rendered stereo camera images from the DALES output

Actual stereo camera images

Cloud masks generated from these images

Camera-Based Reconstructions

Reconstructed cloud fields from the rendered camera images

Reconstructed cloud fields from the actual camera images

Derived Cloud Metrics

Cloud base areas, cloud base heights, and cloud cover from the camera-based reconstructions

Observational Data

Radiosondes, Ceilometer, and Cloudnet measurements

Cloud cover from radiation measurements

Mixed layer height from the Doppler lidar

Reproduction Scripts

Scripts to reproduce the analysis and figures

This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric System Research, an Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research program, under grant DE-SC0022126 and by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under project number 430226822 (https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/430226822). The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing e.V. (https://www.gauss-centre.eu/) is acknowledged for providing computing time on the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) supercomputer JUWELS at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) under the projects RCONGM and VIRTUALLAB. JOYCE data were provided by the Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology of the University of Cologne. JOYCE is a collaborative research platform between University of Cologne and Forschungszentrum Jülich within the European research infrastructure ACTRIS. We acknowledge ACTRIS and the Finnish Meteorological Institute for providing Cloudnet data which is available for download from https://cloudnet.fmi.fi. We acknowledge ECMWF for providing IFS model data.