This archive contains data presented in the manuscript “Interaction of microphysics and dynamics in a warm conveyor belt simulated with the ICON model”.

Article:

• Authors: Annika Oertel, Annette K Miltenberger, Christian M Grams , and Corinna Hoose
• Title: Interaction of microphysics and dynamics in a warm conveyor belt simulated with the ICON model.
• Journal: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
• Publication Year: 2023
• Doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-259

This data set contains (i) cold front-relative vertical cross-section composites across the WCB cloud and (ii) online WCB trajectory data centered relative to the start of fastest embedded 600 hPa ascent phase from a high-resolution nested ICON simulation.
For details on the ICON simulation, trajectory data and composites, please refer to the publication.

Data description:

The data are in netCDF format and contain the following:

• Cold front-relative vertical cross-section composites (front_relcomposites.nc)
  The cold front-relative vertical cross-section composites show characteristics of the WCB cloud band and are centered at the Western edge of the WCB cloud band at relative longitude rlon=0.
  The dataset contains standard meteorological variables, as well as diabatic heating ("dh") and potential vorticity ("pvt_") rates from individual microphysical processes as well as from radiation, turbulence, convection and non-orographic and orographic gravity wave drag.
  Individual processes are described in detail in the publication.

• Trajectory data are contained in the following datasets:

  • wcb_trajs_basic.nc (includes standard meteorological variables)
  • wcb_trajs_adh.nc (includes ascent-integrated diabatic heating rates (ADH) from various non-conservative processes)
  • wcb_trajs_apv.nc (includes ascent-integrated potential vorticity rates (APV) from various non-conservative processes)