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High-resolution nested UA-ICON Simulation during the VortEx Campaign
This dataset contains high-resolution nested simulations conducted over Andøya, Norway (ALOMAR) with UA-ICON (ua-icon-2.1) in the context of the NASA Vorticity Experiment (VortEx) sounding rocket campaign in March 2023. UA-ICON was configured with 180 vertical levels, a model top at 150 km, and a global horizontal resolution of R2B7 (~20 km). One-way nesting was applied to achieve progressively finer resolutions of R2B8 (~10 km), R2B9 (~5 km), R2B10 (~2.5 km), and R2B11 (~1.25 km). In the global domain (~20 km resolution), the large-scale dynamics during the campaign were specified by nudging to ECMWF operational analyses up to an altitude of 50 km. At resolutions finer than 5 km, UA-ICON resolves a significant portion of the gravity wave (GW) spectrum. Consequently, GW and convective parameterizations were progressively turned off, starting from domain DOM3 (~5 km), to isolate the effects of resolved GWs. The simulations show satisfactory agreement with observations, highlighting the model’s capabilities for investigating the dynamics in the MLT region.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-06-19
- Edition
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- Citation identifier
- VortEx_UA-ICON
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26050/WDCC/VortEx_UA-ICON
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- Name
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NetCDF
- Keywords
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UA-ICON
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- Keywords
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VortEx
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- Keywords
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gravity waves
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- Use limitation
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CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Language
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eng; USA
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- Begin date
- 2023-03-20
- End date
- 2023-03-26
- Distribution format
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- Transfer size
- 6245193
- OnLine resource
- https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=VortEx_UA-ICON
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Attribute description
- turbulence tendency of zonal wind
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_nonorographic_gravity_wave_drag
- Descriptor
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Eastward Acceleration Due to Non-Orographic Gravity Wave Drag
Comment: Tendency of the eastward wind by parameterized nonorographic gravity waves.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table EdayZ; Table Emon; Table EmonZ, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- dynamical temperature tendency
- Descriptor
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dynamical temperature tendency; unit: K s-1
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_northward_wind_due_to_orographic_gravity_wave_drag
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Northward Acceleration Due to Orographic Gravity Wave Drag
Comment: Tendency of the northward wind by parameterized orographic gravity waves. (Note that CF name tables only have a general northward tendency for all gravity waves, and we need it separated by type.)
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- upward_air_velocity
- Descriptor
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vertical wind velocity A velocity is a vector quantity. "Upward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed upward (negative downward). Upward air velocity is the vertical component of the 3D air velocity vector. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
- Attribute description
- turbulence tendency of meridional wind
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_air_temperature_due_to_dissipation_of_nonorographic_gravity_waves
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Temperature Tendency due to Non-orographic Gravity Wave Dissipation
Comment: Temperature tendency due to dissipation of parameterized nonorographic gravity waves.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table EmonZ, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): atmos.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K s-1
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_northward_wind_due_to_nonorographic_gravity_wave_drag
- Descriptor
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Northward Acceleration Due to Non-Orographic Gravity Wave Drag
Comment: Tendency of the northward wind by parameterized nonorographic gravity waves. (Note that CF name tables only have a general northward tendency for all gravity waves, and we need it separated by type.)
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table EmonZ, provided in frequency(s): mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity
- Descriptor
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"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_air_temperature_due_to_turbulence
- Descriptor
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The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K s-1
- Attribute description
- air_pressure
- Descriptor
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air_pressure [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
- Attribute description
- eastward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Eastward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed eastward (negative westward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
- Attribute description
- atmosphere_upward_relative_vorticity
- Descriptor
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atmosphere_upward_relative_vorticity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: s-1
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_air_temperature_due_to_longwave_heating
- Descriptor
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The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "longwave" means longwave radiation. Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K s-1
- Attribute description
- divergence_of_wind
- Descriptor
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"[horizontal_]divergence_of_X" means [horizontal] divergence of a vector X; if X does not have a vertical component then "horizontal" should be omitted. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: s-1
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_eastward_wind_due_to_orographic_gravity_wave_drag
- Descriptor
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Eastward Acceleration Due to Orographic Gravity Wave Drag
Comment: Tendency of the eastward wind by parameterized orographic gravity waves.
Used for mip era 'CMIP6' in CMOR MIP table(s): Table EdayZ; Table Emon, provided in frequency(s): day; mon, and for Realm(s): atmos; land.
Codelist created on 2019-02-01 from https://github.com/PCMDI/cmip6-cmor-tables (CMOR Version=3.4; table_date(s):14 December 2018) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-2
- Attribute description
- specific_kinetic_energy_of_air
- Descriptor
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turbulent kinetic energy [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m2 s-2
- Attribute description
- tendency_of_air_temperature_due_to_shortwave_heating
- Descriptor
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The specification of a physical process by the phrase due_to_process means that the quantity named is a single term in a sum of terms which together compose the general quantity named by omitting the phrase. "tendency_of_X" means derivative of X with respect to time. "shortwave" means shortwave radiation. Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K s-1
- Attribute description
- northward_wind
- Descriptor
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"Northward" indicates a vector component which is positive when directed northward (negative southward). Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) [CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
- Attribute description
- air_temperature
- Descriptor
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Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: K
- File identifier
- wdc-climate.de:5284270 XML
- Metadata language
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eng; USA
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Hierarchy level name
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VortEx_UA-ICON
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-19T12:40:39
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115-2:2009
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