Numerical Model Generated Hawaii 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 Hawaii test scene (39320E) (mass content & effective radius) 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 the Hawaii scene dataset for the atmospheric and surface properties, and the third part of this dataset for the data of number concentration of hydrometeors and aerosols, as well as the data of vertical wind speed.

The Hawaii test frame is 6200 km long and 200 km wide with horizontal grid-spacing of 250 km and 57 vertical layers. The simulation is initialized at 12:00 UTC 23-Jun-2015 and saved at 00h00 UTC on 24-Jun-2015. This frame crosses the central Pacific Ocean, near Hawaii, with a mesoscale convective system (MCS) in its center, clear skies in the north and south part of the frame, and a weak frontal system at its southern extremity.