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: 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 absolute value of the difference of surface emission between highland and lowland 
LWA_diff: the absolute value of the difference of atmospheric emission between highland and lowland 
SH_diff: the absolute value of the difference of sensible heat flux between highland and lowland 

4.    data_Fig4.mat: data for figure 4
4a. 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
4b. 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