Properties of cold pools from PERiLS 2022-2023

Cold pools play a range of important roles in quasi-linear convective systems (QLCSs), including maintenance via the development of new convective cells as well as baroclinic generation of horizontal vorticity. Although a number of QLCS cold pools have been characterized in the literature using one or a few sensors, their variability (both internally and across a range of environments) has still not been widely studied. This knowledge gap extends particularly to high-shear low-CAPE (HSLC) convective environments common to the cool season in the Southeastern US, where the Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) field campaign was focused.  PERiLS specifically targeted environmental and storm-scale processes in QLCSs, including their cold pools. Our analysis focuses on the heterogeneity and temporal variability of cold pools across short time and spatial scales using numerous surface and sounding observations across five PERiLS QLCSs. The PERiLS cold pools are ..., , # Properties of cold pools from PERiLS 2022-2023

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.rbnzs7hq0](10.5061/dryad.rbnzs7hq0)

## Description of the data and file structure

The data represent surface and upper air sounding observations from the Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms (PERiLS) field project, which was conducted during the spring months of 2022 and 2023.  The provided data files are either in CSV or NetCDF format.

## Code/software

We have provided post-processed (i.e. quality-controlled) versions of our data needed for creation of our production figures.  In order to use the provided scripts, users will need to un-tar the archive file and also build a Python environment that includes the following non-standard packages: metpy, nexradaws, cartopy, and netcdf4. 

* Pre-processing *.m script examples are contained in the `for_matlab.tar` file. These operate in Matlab on raw data files from the data sources shown below under Access information.  These are a sample subset...,