Data for "Why are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets"

Edited by Bowen Fan on 06/02/2023

0.    This Dataset is for the paper “Why are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets”. 

1.    data_Fig1.mat: data for figure 1
lon: longitude
lat: latitude
Ts: surface temperature (unit in K) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case. 
Z: surface elevation (unit in meter) as a function of longitude latitude, and case. 
a: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure 1c
a1, a2, a3, a4, a5, a6: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure 1d
b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure 1e

2.    data_Fig2.mat: data for figure 2
GSW: net solar heating (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case. 
GLW: atmospheric heating (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.
TSK: surface emission (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.
HFX: sensible cooling (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.

3.    data_Fig3.mat: data for figure 3
LWS_diff: the difference of surface emission between highland and lowland 
LWA_diff: the difference of atmospheric emission between highland and lowland 
SH_diff: the difference of sensible heat flux between highland and lowland 

4.    data_Fig4.mat: data for figure 4

a1, a2, a3, a4: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure 4a
c1, c2: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure 4b

5.    data_FigS1.mat: data for supplementary figure 1
lon: longitude
lat: latitude
Ts: surface temperature (unit in K) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case. 
Z: surface elevation (unit in meter) as a function of longitude latitude, and case. 
a1, a2: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure S1c

6.    data_FigS2.mat: data for supplementary figure 2
lon: longitude
lat: latitude 
HGT: surface elevation (unit in meter) as a function of longitude latitude. 
a1, a2: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure S2b
b1, b2: surface lapse rate (unit in %) for the cases in figure S2c

7.    data_FigS3.mat: data for supplementary figure 3
lon: longitude
lat: latitude
T: near-surface air temperature (unit in K) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case. 
Z: surface elevation (unit in meter) as a function of longitude latitude, and case. 
U: near-surface zonal wind (unit in m/s) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.
V: near-surface meridional wind (unit in m/s) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.

8.    data_FigS4.mat: data for supplementary figure 4
GSW: net solar heating (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case. 
GLW: atmospheric heating (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.
LWS: surface emission (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.
HFX: sensible cooling (unit in W/m2) as a function of longitude, latitude, and case.

9.    data_FigS3.mat: data for supplementary figure 5
Ts_local: surface temperature (unit in K) as a function of case and location (1 = highland, 2 = lowland).
Ps_local: surface pressure (unit in Pa) as a function of case and location.
T_local: atmospheric temperature profile as a function of height, case and location. 
P_local: atmospheric pressure profile as a function of height, case and location. 
T_ad: adiabatic atmospheric temperature profile as a function of height, case and location.

10.    data_FigS6.mat: data for supplementary figure 6
10a. Cases with varied greenhouse forcing
    SW_G LWA_G LWS_G SH_G: surface energy budgets from the GCM. The dimensions are location (1 for highland, 2 for lowland) and case.
    LWA1_G, LWS1_G, SH1_G: surface energy budgets from the highland part of two-column model
    LWA4_G, LWS4_G, SH4_G: surface energy budgets from the lowland part of two-column model
10b. Cases with varied surface pressure
    SW_A LWA_A LWS_A SH_A: surface energy budgets from the GCM. The dimensions are location (1 for highland, 2 for lowland) and case.
    LWA1_A, LWS1_A, SH1_A: surface energy budgets from the highland part of two-column model
    LWA4_A, LWS4_A, SH4_A: surface energy budgets from the lowland part of two-column model