Identification

Title

WRF-Chem Simulations of Dust Storms With and Without Inserting SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

Abstract

This dataset supports the journal article: Lee, J. A., P. A. Jiménez, R. Kumar, and C. He, 2024: Impact of direct insertion of SMAP soil moisture retrievals in WRF-Chem for dust storm events in the western U.S. Atmos. Environ., 321, 120349, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120349. In that study, eight dust storms in the western U.S. from 2015–2021 were simulated with the WRF-Chem model at 9-km grid spacing, with one simulation directly inserting soil moisture retrievals from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite into WRF-Chem ("Insert SMAP"), and the other leaving the WRF-Chem soil moisture field uncorrected ("No SMAP"). Model simulations were validated against ASOS METAR observations of 10-m wind speed, U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) observations of soil moisture content, Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) retrievals of aerosol optical depth (AOD), and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) retrievals of AOD. For all eight cases, this dataset includes 1-hourly and 15-min WRF-Chem model output for both Insert SMAP and No SMAP experiments for a limited set of relevant variables, USCRN station observations, AERONET station retrievals, and matched-pairs of valid MODIS AOD retrievals with WRF-Chem simulated AOD. All data files are provided in NetCDF.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/dataset/id/906f3060-0c65-49c7-af30-600c6509c71c.html

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name: WRF-Chem Simulations of Dust Storms With and Without Inserting SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals

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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 > AEROSOLS > AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH/THICKNESS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > DUST/ASH/SMOKE

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-15

Keyword set

keyword value

Other > Models > Wrf-Chem > Weather Research And Forecasting Model Coupled To Chemistry

Other > Models > Wrf > Weather Research And Forecasting (Wrf) Model

Space-Based Platforms > Earth Observation Satellites > Nasa Decadal Survey > Smap > Soil Moisture Active And Passive Observatory

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-15

Keyword set

keyword value

Earth Remote Sensing Instruments > Passive Remote Sensing > Spectrometers/Radiometers > Imaging Spectrometers/Radiometers > Modis > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-03-15

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-130.0

East bounding longitude

-65.0

North bounding latitude

50.0

South bounding latitude

24.0

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015

End position

2021

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2023-12-27

date type

modified

effective date

2023-12-23

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Gzip Compressed Archive (application/gzip)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Applications Laboratory

email address

jaredlee@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - GDEX

email address

gdex@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-10-08T13:44:29-06:00

Metadata language