Numerical Model Generated Halifax Test Scenes for EarthCARE Pre-launch Studies - Part 2: Hydrometeor and Aerosol Properties

This second part of the dataset contains the hydrometeor and aerosol properties of Halifax test scene (39316D) used for pre-launch studies of EarthCARE’s retrieval algorithms and data management system. The effective radii of ice particles are modified based on the original data produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada's Global Environmental Multi-scale (GEM) NWP model (Côté et al., 1998, Girard et al., 2014). The aerosols data from CAMS interim re-analysis (Flemming et al. 2017) are also added into the test scene. Please refer to the first part of this dataset for the atmospheric and surface properties.

The Halifax test frame is 6200 km long and 200 km wide with horizontal grid-spacing of 250 km and 57 vertical layers. The simulation is initiated at 12h00 UTC on 07-Dec-2014 and saved at 17h30 UTC. This frame extends from southern Greenland, across extreme eastern Canada, and ends in the Atlantic Ocean roughly 500 km north of Dominican Republic. It includes night time over Greenland, cold surface air over eastern Canada, a cold-front with deep clouds just off the coast of Nova Scotia, and scattered shallow clouds between Bermuda and Dominican Republic.