Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM) dry GCM simulations for Titan's planetary boundary layer (supporting "Thermal Inertia Controls on Titan's Surface Temperature and Planetary Boundary Layer Structure")

This archive contains dry General Circulation Model (GCM) simulations with the Titan Atmospheric Model (TAM) used in “Thermal Inertia Controls on Titan’s Surface Temperature and Planetary Boundary Layer Structure” (Han & Lora, submitted to The Planetary Science Journal).

We provide diurnal-cadence outputs near the Huygens and planned Dragonfly landing sites during southern midsummer, as well as global seasonal-cadence outputs spanning one Titan year. We adopted a T21 horizontal resolution (64 × 32 longitude–latitude grid) with 50 vertical atmospheric levels.

Contents

• atmos_diurnal_case1.nc … atmos_diurnal_case4_huygens.nc
  16-Earth-hour cadence (≈1/24 Titan day), 50 Titan days, region near the Huygens landing site.

• atmos_diurnal_case1.nc … atmos_diurnal_case4_dragonfly.nc
  16-Earth-hour cadence (≈1/24 Titan day), 50 Titan days, region near the planned Dragonfly landing site.

• atmos_seasonal_case1.nc … atmos_seasonal_case4.nc
  Global fields at 384-Earth-hour cadence (≈1 Titan day), spanning 10,752 Earth days (≈1 Titan year). The data starts from souther vernal equinox. 

Notes
Cases 1–4 correspond to distinct surface thermal inertia configurations described in the manuscript.