Data files for the Kinematic Driver-Aerosol intercomparison

The Kinematic Driver-Aerosol (KiD-A) intercomparison was established to test the hypothesis that detailed warm microphysical schemes provide a benchmark for lower-complexity bulk microphysics schemes. KiD-A is the first intercomparison to compare multiple Lagrangian cloud models (LCMs), size bin-resolved schemes, and double-moment bulk microphysics schemes in a consistent 1D dynamic framework and box cases. The motivation and description of intercomparison, along with overview of the schemes included and the intercomparison results are presented in Hill et al (2023).

Here we provide details of the raw data that was produced during the intercomparison by participants and used to generate the results and plots that are discussed in Hill et al (2023).

The data for the intercomparison are provided in the kid-a_0d_1d_final_submission.tar.gz. To access the data, untar and unzip the file using

$ tar -xzvf kid-a_0d_1d_final_submission.tar.gz

Once untarred and unzipped, the following directory structure is available

kid-a_pub/kida_0d_data contains all the data for the 0-D box simulations

kid-a_pub/kida_1d_data contains all the data for the 1-D column simulations

Within kida_0d_data and kida_1d_data, there are further directories, which are specific to each submission. Tables 1 and 2 define the directories for each submission, with model names that relate to the model naming in Hill et al. (2023), and a full description of the model types can be found in Hill et al. (2023). The specific  directories for each model contain NetCDF output from the KiD model. In addition, some participants also included namelists that were used to run KiD and produce the output. Where this was submitted, these namelist files are also included.

Table 1: Scheme names as defined in Hill et al. (2023), scheme type, and 1-D column model data directory (kida 1d data)

Model
Description
1-D data directory

LCM-FH
Lagrangian microphysics
hoffman_1d_ensemble

LCM-MA
Lagrangian microphysics
mirek_lm_1d

UWLCM
Lagrangian microphysics
piotr_uw_lcm

bin2d

Eulerian bin scheme

lebo_bin2d_solute_tests

TAU-bin
Eulerian bin scheme
hill_kida_taubin_results_v2

MSSG-bin
Eulerian bin scheme
onishi_mssg_1d_v2

MG2
Two-moment bulk scheme
mg2_4th_sub

CASIM (cond/evap)
Two-moment bulk scheme
hill_1D_CE_casim_result

CASIM (precip)
Two-moment bulk scheme
hill_1D_casim_v0.5

LIMA
Two-moment bulk scheme
vie_lima_bulk_kida_results

LIMA-KK
Two-moment bulk scheme
vie_limakk_bulk_kida_results

Table 2: Scheme names as defined in Hill et al. (2023), scheme type, and 0-D box model data directory (kida 0d data).

Model
Description
0-D data directory

LCM-FH (cond)

Lagrangian microphysics

hoffman_kida_results/box_cond

LCM-FH (coll)
Lagrangian microphysics
hoffman_kida_results/box_coll

LCM-MA (cond)
Lagrangian microphysics
mirek_lm_0d/ZERO-D_v1.0/CE

LCM-MA (coll)
Lagrangian microphysics
mirek_lm_0d/ZERO-D_v1.0/CO

UWLCM (coll)
Lagrangian microphysics
piotr_lm_0d

bin2d (cond)
Eulerian bin scheme
lebo_bin2d/cond

bin2d (coll)
Eulerian bin scheme
lebo_bin2d/coll

TAU-bin (cond)
Eulerian bin scheme
hill_kida_taubin_result/cond

TAU-bin (coll)
Eulerian bin scheme
hill_kida_taubin_result/coll

Hill, A. A., Lebo, Z. J., Andrejczuk, M., Arabas, S., Dziekan, P., Field, P., Gettelman, A., Hoffmann, F., Pawlowska, H., Onishi, R., & Vi ́e, B. (2023). Toward a Numerical Benchmark for Warm Rain Processes, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (published online ahead of print 2023). doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0275.1