Identification

Title

Model and observational data for Morrison et al. (2020) JAMES paper entitled "Confronting the challenge of modeling cloud and precipitation microphysics"

Abstract

This dataset was used to generate plots for a paper conditionally accepted in the Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES), an AGU journal. It comprises four different data sources: WRF simulations, radar observations, an idealized steady-state column model called the Bayesian Observationally-Constrained Statistical Scheme (BOSS), and idealized column rainshaft model using bin microphysics. The WRF simulations consist of output from a set of 11 runs using either bulk or bin microphysics schemes. The version of WRF is V3.9.1. To limit storage requirements, we have only saved a single time-slice of output at hour 6 of the simulations, along with the namelist.input file to generate these runs. The observational data are gridded and rotated composite NEXRAD reflectivity measurements from central Oklahoma. BOSS model output consists of microphysical parameter probability density functions and profiles of (as described in the meta-file for these data). The idealized bin microphysics rainshaft model output consists of profiles of drop mean size, reflectivity factor, precipitation rate, and drop concentration at two different time slices (described in the meta-data file for these data). We are requesting these data be added to the managed NCAR repository so they may be accessible to the community per AGU publication policy and in accordance with a U.S. DOE grant that partially supported this work.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/dataset/id/2b490160-a5b3-4ef9-ae1f-1cd25c1ed4be.html

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Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > WEATHER RESEARCH/FORECAST MODELS

EARTH SCIENCE > SPECTRAL/ENGINEERING > RADAR > RADAR REFLECTIVITY

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-15

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

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South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-05-20T06:00:00

End position

2011-05-20T06:00:00

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-04-23

date type

modified

effective date

2020-04-16

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Conformity

Data format

name of format

Portable Document Format (application/pdf)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory

email address

morrison@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - GDEX

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-07-21T12:30:10-06:00

Metadata language