Clouds and Radiation in a mock-Walker Circulation model output

Data used in the creation of figures for Silvers and Robinson, Clouds and Radiation in a mock-Walker Circulation. 2020, JAMES.   

These experiments are described in detail in the paper.  They use the AM4.0 physics package on a doubly periodic domain with a warm patch of SST that is fixed in time at the center of the domain.  Grid-Spacings of 1km, 2km, 25km, and 100km are explored on different domain sizes.  The data set focuses on analysis of the atmospheric circulation and cloud response to this SST warm region.

For questions please contact Levi Silvers at [e-mail], [e-mail]

Directory contents are described below:

#=========================================================================================
# data for the P100, P100L, P25, P25L, E25 experiments are in the following directories 
#=========================================================================================
# P100
c8x40L33_am4p0_100km_wlkr_ent0p9
c8x40L33_am4p0_100km_wlkr_ent0p9_lwoff
# P100L
c8x160L33_am4p0_100km_wlkr_ent0p9
c8x160L33_am4p0_100km_wlkr_ent0p9_lwoff
# P25
c8x160L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9
c8x160L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9_lwoff
# P25L
c8x640L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9
c8x640L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9_lwoff
# E25
c8x160L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9_noconv
c8x160L33_am4p0_25km_wlkr_ent0p9_noconv_lwoff

# within the directories for each of these experiments: P100, P100L, P25, P25L, E25
# there are two files: 1979th1983_daily.nc and 1980th1983.atmos_month_tmn.nc

# within each of these files are the following variables: 
1979th1983_daily.nc
'prec_conv'
'prec_ls'
'precip'

1980th1983.atmos_month_tmn.nc
'ps'
'temp'
'ucomp'
'w'
'sphum'
'cld_amt'
'z_full'
'precip'
'prec_conv'
'prec_ls'
'rh'
'tot_liq_amt'
'tot_ice_amt'
'tdt_lw'
'evap'
'shflx'

#=========================================================================================
# data for the E1 and E2 experiments are in the following directories 
#=========================================================================================
# E1 
c10x4000L33_am4p0_1km_wlkr_4K
c10x4000L33_am4p0_1km_wlkr_4K_lwoff
# E2 
c50x2000L33_am4p0_2km_wlkr_4K
c50x2000L33_am4p0_2km_wlkr_4K_lwoff

# within each of these directories are two files: 1979_6mn.atmos_month.nc and 1979.6mn.atmos_daily_selvars.nc
# these files contain the following variables: 

# 1979_6mn.atmos_month.nc
tdt_lw
t_surf
evap
shflx
tot_ice_amt
tot_liq_amt
rh
precip
z_full
cld_amt
sphum
ucomp
temp 
w
ps
shflx

# 1979.6mn.atmos_daily_selvars.nc
t_surf
ps
precip

Acknowledgment: Aparna Radhakrishnan supported the provision of this Zenodo DOI.