Published November 5, 2019 | Version v1
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Moisture Recycling over the Iberian Peninsula

  • 1. Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  • 2. Department of Applied Physics II, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Leioa, Spain.
  • 3. Department of Applied Physics I, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gazteiz, Spain.
  • 4. Department of NE and Fluid Mechanics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao Engineering School, Bilbao, Spain.

Description

These data are made available as part of paper: S. J. Gonzalez-Roji, J. Saenz, J. Diaz de Argandona, G. Ibarra-Berastegi (2020) "Moisture recycling over the Iberian Peninsula. The impact of 3DVAR data assimilation", published in Atmosphere (https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11010019). The dataset holds selected postprocessed files that allow to reproduce all the results in the paper.

Two WRF experiments nested in ERA-Interim were prepared. The first one (N) was configured as in standard numerical downscaling experiments. The second one (D), with the same parameterizations, included a step of 3DVAR data assimilation every 6 hours. The original experiments covered period 2010-2014 after a year of spin-up (2019). However, D was extended until the end of 2018. 

The following monthly averaged (accumulated for rain) nc files are included:

- Qx/Qy: Refer to the zonal and meridional vertically integrated moisture fluxes for the domain. 

- Rain: Include the accumulated convective and large-scale precipitation output from the model. 

- SMOIS: Contains the soil moisture of the model runs.

- mask: Defines the area where the recycling ratio is calculated over the Iberian Peninsula. 

- Rho: Holds the recycling ratio at every grid point. 

The -N- or -D- characters in the file names indicate whether the files come from the WRF N or WRF D experiments. 

 

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Journal article: 10.3390/atmos11010019 (DOI)