16-year WRF simulation for the Southern Alps of New Zealand

doi:10.26050/WDCC/NZ-PROXY_16yrWRF

Kropac, Elena; Mölg, Thomas; Cullen, Nicolas James

ExperimentDOI
Summary
The climatological dataset was produced using the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model, version 4.2.2, configured with two nested domains at 10 km (D1) and 2 km (D2) horizontal grid spacing. It covers most of the South Island of New Zealand and is centered over Brewster Glacier in the Southern Alps. The model was forced every three hours by ERA5 reanalysis data at its outer lateral boundaries. The dataset spans the period of 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2020, providing daily output in the outer domain (D1) and 3-hourly output in the innermost domain (D2).

The data provided here are a selection of daily averages from the inner WRF domain (D2; 2-km grid spacing). They are distributed among three different file types containing 4-dimensional, 3-dimensional and time-invariant output variables, respectively. For the 4-dimensional fields, perturbation and base-state atmospheric pressure (WRF variables P and PB) and geopotential (PH and PHB) were combined to produce full model fields (PRES and GEOPT). Perturbation potential temperature (T) was converted to total potential temperature (THETA). Wind vectors (U,V, and W) were converted to mass points and rotated to earth coordinates.

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Acknowledgements: The modeling and related research was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) grant no. 453305163. The authors gratefully acknowledge the scientific support and HPC resources provided by the Erlangen National High Performance Computing Center (NHR@FAU) of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) under the NHR project b128dc / ATMOS ("Numerical atmospheric modeling for the attribution of climate change and for model improvement"). NHR funding is provided by federal and Bavarian state authorities. NHR@FAU hardware is partially funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) – 440719683.
Project
NZ-PROXY (The potential of coralline algae as an indicator of climate in the Southern Hemisphere and for the evaluation of global climate models: a New Zealand case study)
Contact
Elena Kropac (
 elena.kropac@nullfau.de
0000-0002-5252-9809)
Spatial Coverage
Longitude 164.72 to 173.88 Latitude -47.61 to -41.34 Altitude: 0 m to 2728.25 m
Temporal Coverage
2005-01-01 to 2020-12-31 (standard)
Use constraints
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Data Catalog
World Data Center for Climate
Size
436.09 GiB (468252259800 Byte)
Format
NetCDF
Status
completely archived
Creation Date
Future Review Date
2033-06-15
Cite as
Kropac, Elena; Mölg, Thomas; Cullen, Nicolas James (2023). 16-year WRF simulation for the Southern Alps of New Zealand. World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ. https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/NZ-PROXY_16yrWRF

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Funding
German Research Foundation
Grant/Award No: 453305163 - Exploring the potential of coralline algae as climate proxy and for climate model evaluation: a Southern Hemisphere case study of New Zealand
German Research Foundation
Grant/Award No: 440719683 - High Performance Compute Cluster
Description
Summary:
Findable: 6 of 7 level;
Accessible: 2 of 3 level;
Interoperable: 3 of 4 level;
Reusable: 5 of 10 level
Method
F-UJI online v2.2.5 automated
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. Metrics documentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4081213 Metric Version: metrics_v0.5
Method Url
Result Date
2023-08-22
Result Date
2023-07-12
Description
1. Number of data sets is correct and > 0: passed;
2. Size of every data set is > 0: passed;
3. The data sets and corresponding metadata are accessible: passed;
4. The data sizes are controlled and correct: passed;
5. The spatial-temporal coverage description (metadata) is consistent to the data, time steps are correct and the time coordinate is continuous: passed;
6. The format is correct: passed;
7. Variable description and data are consistent: passed
Method
WDCC-TQA checklist
Method Description
Checks performed by WDCC. The list of TQA metrics are documented in the 'WDCC User Guide for Data Publication' Chapter 8.1.1
Method Url
Result Date
2023-07-12
Contact typePersonORCIDOrganization
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[1] DOI Skamarock, W. C.; Klemp, J. B.; Dudhia, J.; Gill, D. O.; Liu, Z.; Berner, J.; Wang, W.; Powers, G.; Duda, G.; Barker, D.; Huang, X. (2021). A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Model Version 4.3 (No. NCAR/TN-556+STR). doi:10.5065/1dfh-6p97

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[Entry acronym: NZ-PROXY_16yrWRF] [Entry id: 5165959]