Baroclinic-Wave Life-Cycle Animations and Derived Data for Idealized SHiELD Simulations

This dataset contains baroclinic-wave life-cycle animations and the derived data used to generate them for the idealized SHiELD/FV3 experiments supporting the manuscript “Impacts of Jet Stream Structure on Cyclone Interaction and Persistent Anticyclones: Insights from Dry Baroclinic Wave Simulations”. The archive includes ten MP4 animations, animation-ready NetCDF subsets, preview images, rendering and validation scripts, metadata, and checksums. The derived NetCDF subsets are intended to support reproduction and reuse of the archived visualizations without requiring redistribution of the much larger raw SHiELD model outputs. These animations provide supplemental visualization of the simulated baroclinic-wave life cycles and are not required for the manuscript’s primary quantitative conclusions.