Seasonal climatology with the atmosphere model ICON-NWP (1979-2017)

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Koehler, Raphael

Dataset
Summary
The data comprises ensemble simulations with the global ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic atmospheric model ICON (Zängl et al., 2015) version 2.1.0. The model is run with the horizontal resolution R2B5, which corresponds to a grid mesh of approximately 80 km, and with 90 vertical levels up to a height of 75 km. The ICON climatology is created by simulating periods from September to May for the years 1979/80 to 2016/17 (38 years), and each period is simulated by five ensemble members. Thus, yielding a total of 190 nine-month simulations. The ensemble members were generated by shifting the initialisation by ±6h and ±12h. We prescribe mid-monthly sea surface temperatures and sea ice concentrations produced by the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison for the Atmosphere Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) experiments of CMIP6 (Durack and Taylor, 2018). Based on the results of Köhler et al. (2021), we use a tuned setup of the subgrid scale orographic (SSO) drag and the non-orographic gravity wave drag scheme, as in particular the stratospheric polar vortex exhibits a more realistic behaviour. The ICON simulations we use in this study are well tested and correspond to the ICONgwd− experiment of Köhler et al. (2021).

The data are grouped by variable and given as daily means on a regular 0.75° lonlat grid. Each folder consists of 190 single files and each file includes one 9-month simulation. The date and time of initialisation are stated in the file name. Pressure-level (PL) data are given on 34 pressure levels. Single-level (SL) data are packed into tar-bundles to avoid a large amount of very small files.

The ICON model code is distributed under an institutional license issued by the DeutscherWetterdienst (DWD). Further information can be found via https://code.mpimet.mpg.de/projects/iconpublic.

Durack, P. J. and Taylor, K. E.: PCMDI AMIP SST and sea-ice boundary conditions version 1.1.4, https://doi.org/10.22033/ESGF/input4MIPs.2204, 2018.

Köhler, R., Handorf, D., Jaiser, R., Dethloff, K., Zängl, G., Majewski, D., and Rex, M.: Improved Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere by Adjusting Gravity Wave Drag Parameterizations in Seasonal Experiments With ICON-NWP, Earth and Space Science, 8,e2021EA001 676, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EA001676, 2021

Zängl, G., Reinert, D., Rípodas, P., and Baldauf, M.: The ICON (ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic) modelling framework of DWD and MPI-M: Description of the non-hydrostatic dynamical core, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 141, 563–579, https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2378, 2015.
Project
DKRZ_lta (Long-term Archiving of Climate Model Data at WDC Climate and DKRZ (DOKU))
Spatial Coverage
Longitude 0 to 360 Latitude -90 to 90
Temporal Coverage
1979-09-01 to 2017-05-31 (gregorian)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
DOKU at DKRZ
Access constraints
registered users
Size
4.15 TiB (4564711571360 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2033-02-15
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Koehler, Raphael (2023). Seasonal climatology with the atmosphere model ICON-NWP. DOKU at DKRZ. https://hdl.handle.net/21.14106/c815f7268f7156a7d7cd59099f6413db2f263943

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Author
Dr. Raphael Koehler
0000-0002-3378-8012
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research
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Dr. Raphael Koehler
0000-0002-3378-8012
Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

Is related to

[1] DOI Köhler, Raphael; Handorf, Dörthe; Jaiser, Ralf; Dethloff, Klaus; Zängl, Günther; Majewski, Detlev; Rex, Markus. (2021). Improved Circulation in the Northern Hemisphere by Adjusting Gravity Wave Drag Parameterizations in Seasonal Experiments With ICON‐NWP. doi:10.1029/2021ea001676

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[1] DOI Zängl, Günther; Reinert, Daniel; Rípodas, Pilar; Baldauf, Michael. (2014). The ICON (ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic) modelling framework of DWD and MPI-M: Description of the non-hydrostatic dynamical core. doi:10.1002/qj.2378

Is derived from

[1] DOI Durack, Paul J.; Taylor, Karl E. (2018). PCMDI AMIP SST and sea-ice boundary conditions version 1.1.4. doi:10.22033/ESGF/input4MIPs.2204

Parent

Klimavariabilitaet des gekoppelten Atmosphaere-Ozean-Systems mit vereinfachter stratosphaerischer Chemie
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Long-term Archiving of Climate Model Data at WDC Climate and DKRZ (DOKU)

[Entry acronym: DKRZ_LTA_238_ds00004] [Entry id: 3967335]