Model output for "Numerically consistent budgets of potential temperature, momentum, and moisture in Cartesian coordinates: application to the WRF model"

These data were produced with WRFlux v1.2.1 (https://github.com/matzegoebel/WRFlux/) from a numerical simulation with the community model WRF. Simulations represent the evolution of a convective boundary layer in the atmosphere over an idealized 2D mountain ridge. The data are published in connection with the article "Numerically consistent budgets of potential temperature, momentum and moisture in Cartesian coordinates: Application to the WRF model" in "Geoscientific Model Development" (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-669-2022).

Three-dimensional (x, z, t) fields of five prognostic variables are provided: Potential temperature (T), water vapor mixing ratio (Q), cross-mountain (U), along-mountain (V), and vertical windspeed (W). All fields are averaged in time (30 min averaging interval) and in the along-mountain direction y.

The repository contains the following files:

grid.nc : variables related to the WRF numerical grid, air density
[U,W,T,Q]_flux.nc : resolved and subgrid-scale fluxes
[U,W,T,Q]_tendency.nc : resolved and subgrid-scale tendency components
UVWT_MEAN.nc : averaged values of the variables themselves
plotting.py : python script to approximately reproduce the figures of the paper. Requires the python packages matplotlib, xarray, and netcdf4.

Figure 6 in the paper cannot be accurately reproduced with these data since the original figure uses 4D (x, y, z, t) output.

For details on the simulation, refer to the article.