Atmospheric soundings derived from kilometer-scale climate simulations over North America to initialize idealized simulations of mesoscale convective systems

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Inflow soundings of simulated mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) in the central United States under current and future (end of the century under a high-end emission scenario) climate conditions. These are not observed soundings but are derived from current and future kilometer-scale climate simulations. The simulations, from which the soundings are derived, are described in Liu et al. (2017; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-016-3327-9). More details about how the soundings are derived can be found in Prein et al. (2020; under review). These soundings compare well with observed pre-MCS soundings in the U.S. Southern Great Planes (Wang et al. 2020). The archived soundings are in a format that can directly be read by the Weather Research and Forecasting model (https://www.climatescience.org.au/sites/default/files/WRF_ideal_201711.pdf). Each datafile contains five columns representing different variables and the rows show the changes in the variables through an atmospheric column. The header row variables are from left to right: surface pressure [hPa], surface potential temperature [K], and surface vater vapor mixing ratio [g/kg]. The variables in the second to the last row are fro the left column to the right: height above surface [m], potential temperature [K], water vapor mixing ratio [g/kg], zonal wind speed [m/s], and meridional wind speed [m/s]

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.914964
Related Identifier IsSupplementTo https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0546
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3327-9
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031774
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.914964
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Creator Prein, Andreas F (ORCID: 0000-0001-6250-179X)
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2020
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format application/zip
Size 18.6 kBytes
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-123.800W, 27.700S, -80.800E, 48.200N); United States of America