NWP model dataset used in "Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: demonstration in London"

These data are used in Saunders et. al 2024: “Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: demonstration in London”, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4837 NWP datasets (Met Office UKV model) from two days (2nd May 2016, day of year (DOY) 123, and 5th May 2016, DOY 126) used in Saunders et al. 2024. Day cases are separated by folder named in the format year + DOY. The UKV data for the IOP days are from the operational runs, initialised at 21:00 UTC, with model output analysed from 00:00 UTC the following day for the period when observations are available. The operational UKV’s diagnostics output is on the hour. Filenames are presented in the following example format: MOUKV_FC2016050121Z_m01s00i002_LON_BCT.nc This example would be from the UKV model (‘MOUKV’), from a run initialising at 2100 UTC on the 1st May 2016 (FC2016050121Z) for the variable ‘U component of wind’ (identified by the stash code ‘m01s00i002’), with 3 by 3 grid boxes overlaying the ‘BCT’ site as described by Saunders et al. 2024 (‘LON_BCT’). The following stash codes, used by Saunders et al. 2024, are available: m01s00i002: U component of wind m01s00i003: V component of wind m01s00i010: Specific humidity m01s00i024: Surface temperature m01s00i025: Boundary layer depth m01s00i090: Total aerosol m01s00i150: W component of wind m01s00i266: Bulk clod fraction m01s00i408: Pressure at theta levels m01s00i409: Surface pressure m01s01i235: Total downward surface shortwave flux m01s02i201: Outgoing shortwave radiative flux (top of atmosphere) m01s02i207: Incoming shortwave radiative flux (top of atmosphere) m01s03i026: Roughness length m01s03i202: Heat flux from surface to deep soil level 1 m01s03i216: Boundary layer heat fluxes m01s03i217: Surface sensible heat flux m01s03i219: X component of surface and boundary layer wind stress m01s03i220: Y component of surface and boundary layer wind stress m01s03i222: Boundary layer total moisture fluxes m01s03i225: 10-meter wind U component m01s03i226: 10-meter wind V component m01s03i234: Surface latent heat flux m01s03i236: Temperature at 1.5 m m01s03i245: Relative humidity at 1.5 m m01s03i281: Visibility t 1.5 m (including precipitation) m01s03i290: Surface sensible heat flux on tiles m01s03i316: Surface temperature on tiles m01s03i321: Canopy water on tiles m01s03i476: Combined boundary layer type m01s04i203: Large scale rainfall rate m01s08i225: Deep soil temperature after hydrology m01s09i203: Low cloud amount m01s09i204: Medium cloud amount m01s09i205: High cloud amount m01s09i217: Total cloud amount m01s16i004: Temperature on theta levels m01s16i222: Pressure at mean sea level