The experiment CLM_A2_ZS contains Northern European regional climate simulations of the years 2070-2099 on a rotated grid (CLM non hydrostatic, 0.44 deg. hor. resolution, see http://www.clm-community.eu ). It is forced by the first (_1_) run of the global IPCC SRES A2 (EH5-T63L31_OM-GR1.5L40_A2_1_6H), which describes an economic development which is primarily regionally oriented and the technical change is more fragmented and slower than in the other SRES storylines.
The model region starts at -19.36/-40.48 (lat/lon in rotated coordinates; centre of lower left corner of the domain) with rotated North Pole at 21.3/-175.0 (lat/lon). The number of grid points is 80/146 (lat/lon). The sponge zone (numerically unreliable boundary grid points) consists of 8 grid boxes at each border. EH5-T63L31_OM-GR1.5L40_A2_1_6H were nudged during the simulations (spectral nudging,von Storch, H., A spectral nudging technique for dynamical downscaling purposes. Mon. Wea. Rev, 2000 )
The regional model variables include two-dimensional near surface fields and atmospheric fields on 6 pressure levels (200, 500, 700, 850, 925 and 1000 hPa) for zonal and meridional wind, temperature and pressure.
The time interval of the output fields is 3 hours.
Please contact sga"at"dkrz.de for data request details.
The output format is netCDF.
Experiment with CLM 2.4.6 on HPC Cluster ( blizzard ).
Zahn, Matthias (2010). Climate Simulation with CLM, Scenario A2 run no.1, North Atlantic region. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/CLM_A2_ZS
SQA - Scientific Quality Assurance 'approved by author'
Result Date
2010-07-21
Technical Quality Assurance (TQA)
TQA - Technical Quality Assurance 'approved by WDCC'
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed;
2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed;
3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed;
4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed;
5. The temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data: passed;
6. The format is correct: passed;
7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
[1] DOIZahn, Matthias; von Storch, Hans. (2010). Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming. doi:10.1038/nature09388