Dataset for "entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud"

This dataset accompanies the paper

Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary cumulus cloud (2025).
Jingzi Huang, Henry C. Burridge, Stephan de Roode and Maarten van Reeuwijk
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1002/qj.4920

Please reference the paper and the dataset if you make use of this data.

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The main directory contains the following files and folders:
loaddata.m:      loads the simulation data.
plotdata.m:      plots the figures in the paper.
functions:       a folder with auxiliary MATLAB functions.
figures:         a folder containing all the figure files in the paper
data:            a folder containing the raw simulation data

Data folder
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Instantaneous data (x,z,t):
b.mat:           buoyancy field
ql.mat:             liquid water specific humidity field
w.mat:           vertical velocity field
t.mat:           time

instantaneous cloud-averaged data (z,t):
bint.mat:        cloud-averaged buoyancy
wint.mat:        cloud-averaged vertical velocity
qlint.mat:       cloud-averaged liquid water specific humidity
Aint.mat:        cloud area

Reynolds-averaged data (r,z):
bav.mat:         buoyancy field
pav.mat:         pressure field
qlav.mat:        liquid water specific humidity field
uav.mat:         radial velocity field
wav.mat:         vertical velocity field
r_cld.mat:       cloud boundary
r_co:            updraft boundary

conditional data (z,t):
t_con.mat:       sampling time for conditional data
cldfld.txt:      for entire cloud, already loaded as cldfld.mat
cldupfld.txt:    for updraft, already loaded as cldupfld.mat

environmental data file (z):
env_values.txt:  environmental values

simulation parameters for spbase:
plume_dA.nc.620: plume statistics
simparams_620:   parameters file