An LES perturbed parameter ensemble of free-tropospheric cloud-controlling factors on stratocumulus

This dataset contains a perturbed parameter ensemble of large-eddy simulations to assess the effect of two free-tropospheric cloud-controlling factors on stratocumulus clouds properties. The simulations were run on the UK Met Office/NERC cloud model (MONC) for the DYCOMS-II RF01 nocturnal stratocumulus case (Stevens et. al., 2005). Each simulation had the same initial conditions except for the two perturbed parameters, which were the jumps in moisture and temperature at the temperature inversion at cloud top. The corresponding analysis code can be found at this dycoms_analysis Github page. 

Stevens, B., Moeng, C. H., Ackerman, A. S., Bretherton, C. S., Chlond, A., de Roode, S., . . . Zhu, P. (2005). Evaluation of large-eddy simulations via observations of nocturnal marine stratocumulus. Monthly Weather Review , 133 (6), 1443–1462. doi: 10.1175/MWR2930.1