Iberian Summer Surface Temperature and Fluxes for Energy Balance

This dataset holds selected postprocessed files for surface temperature and fluxes involved in the surface energy balance.

Four WRF experiments nested in ERA-Interim were prepared. The first one (N) was configured as in standard numerical downscaling experiments using the Noah LSM. The second one (D), with the same parameterizations, included a step of 3DVAR data assimilation every 6 hours. The third and the fourth ones (S and C) are similar to N and D but use a diffusive soil scheme instead of NOAH LSM. The experiments covered the period 2010-2014 after a year of spin-up (2019). 

The following 3-hourly files are included:

• Tsoil: soil temperature for the first 2 top levels of the surface.
• T2: 2 metre temperature. 
• Latent: Latent heat flux.
• Sensible: Sensible heat flux.
• NetSW: net short-wave radiation flux at the surface.
• NetLW: net long-wave radiation flux at the surface.
• GRDFLX: ground flux toward lower layers of the soil.

The N, D, C or S characters in the file names indicate whether the files come from the WRF N, D, C or S experiments. The files include a table including the 3-hourly data for each grid point over the Iberian Peninsula: year | month | day | hour | V1 | ... | V2058  

The 2058 grid points included in each file are listed in the same order as in the file WRFmask_points_withoutUrban_withLandType.dat