16-year WRF simulation for the Southern Alps of New Zealand: 3-dimensional fields

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Kropac, Elena; Mölg, Thomas; Cullen, Nicolas James

Dataset
Summary
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The climatological dataset was produced using the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model, version 4.2.2, configured with two nested domains at 10 km (D1) and 2 km (D2) horizontal grid spacing. It covers most of the South Island of New Zealand and is centered over Brewster Glacier in the Southern Alps. The model was forced every three hours by ERA5 reanalysis data at its outer lateral boundaries. The dataset spans the period of 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2020, providing daily output in the outer domain (D1) and 3-hourly output in the innermost domain (D2).

The data provided here are a selection of daily averages from the inner WRF domain (D2; 2-km grid spacing). They are distributed among three different file types containing 4-dimensional, 3-dimensional and time-invariant output variables, respectively. For the 4-dimensional fields, perturbation and base-state atmospheric pressure (WRF variables P and PB) and geopotential (PH and PHB) were combined to produce full model fields (PRES and GEOPT). Perturbation potential temperature (T) was converted to total potential temperature (THETA). Wind vectors (U,V, and W) were converted to mass points and rotated to earth coordinates.

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Acknowledgements: The modeling and related research was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant no. 453305163. The authors gratefully acknowledge the scientific support and HPC resources provided by the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) under the NHR project b128dc / ATMOS ("Numerical atmospheric modeling for the attribution of climate change and for model improvement"). NHR funding is provided by federal and Bavarian state authorities. NHR@FAU hardware is partially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 440719683.
Project
NZ-PROXY (The potential of coralline algae as an indicator of climate in the Southern Hemisphere and for the evaluation of global climate models: a New Zealand case study)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude 164.72 to 173.88 Latitude -47.61 to -41.34 Altitude: 0 m to 2728.25 m
Temporal Coverage
2005-01-01 to 2020-12-31 (standard)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Access constraints
registered users
Size
34.83 GiB (37396511902 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2033-06-22
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Kropac, Elena; Mölg, Thomas; Cullen, Nicolas James (2023). 16-year WRF simulation for the Southern Alps of New Zealand. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/NZ-PROXY_16yrWRF

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VariableAggregationUnit
air_temperature-at2m
CF
daily meanK
atmosphere_boundary_layer_thickness
CF
daily meanm
eastward_wind-at10m
CF
daily meanm s-1
Fraction of frozen precipitation
daily mean1
friction_velocity
daily meanm s-1
graupel_fall_amount
CF
daily accumulatedmm
hail_fall_amount
CF
daily accumulatedmm
humidity_mixing_ratio-at2m
CF
daily meankg kg-1
northward_wind-at10m
CF
daily meanm s-1
precipitation_amount
CF
daily accumulatedmm
sea_surface_skin_temperature
CF
daily meanK
sea_surface_temperature
CF
daily meanK
snowfall_amount
CF
daily accumulatedmm
surface_air_pressure
CF
daily meanPa
surface_albedo
CF
daily mean1
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
CF
daily meanW m-2
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
CF
daily meanW m-2
surface_longwave_emissivity
CF
daily mean1
surface_net_downward_shortwave_flux
CF
daily meanW m-2
surface_runoff_amount
CF
daily meanmm
surface_snow_amount
CF
dailykg m-2
surface_snow_thickness
CF
dailym
surface_temperature
CF
daily meanK
surface_upward_latent_heat_flux
CF
daily meanW m-2
surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
CF
daily meanW m-2
surface_upward_water_flux
CF
daily meankg m-2 s-1
toa_outgoing_longwave_flux
CF
daily meanW m-2
upward_heat_flux_at_ground_level_in_soil
CF
daily meanW m-2

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16-year WRF simulation for the Southern Alps of New Zealand
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Parent project(s)

The potential of coralline algae as an indicator of climate in the Southern Hemisphere and for the evaluation of global climate models: a New Zealand case study

[Entry acronym: NZ-PROXY_16yrWRF_3D] [Entry id: 5192554]