posted on 2021-04-27, 06:30authored byChiu Tung Cheng, Kentaroh Suzuki
<div>Model outputs of Nonhydrostatic ICosahedral Atmospheric Model - Spectral Radiation-Transport Model for Aerosol Species (NICAM-SPRINTARS)</div><div><br></div><div>Each .nc file contains two groups, 'sprintars_orig' and 'sprintars_bin', corresponding to the outputs of NICAM-SPRINTARS-orig and NICAM-SPRINTARS-bin, respectively. Simulations were performed with horizontal resolutions of ~220km (g-level 5), with outputs re-gridded on 1deg x 1deg lat-lon grid. </div><div><br></div><div>The following files contain annual / monthly averaged values on the lat-lon grid:</div><div><br></div><div>(1) annual_data_latlon.nc</div><div>- Datasets in subgroup 'mass' were used to plot fig.3 & 8</div><div>- Datasets in subgroup 'numc' were used to plot fig.5, 9 & 11 </div><div>- Datasets in group 'optical' were used to plot fig.7 & 12</div><div><br></div><div>(2) monthly_data_latlon.nc</div><div>- Datasets in subgroup 'numc' were used to plot fig.10</div><div><br></div><div>The following files contain annual / monthly zonal averaged values on the lat-altitude grid:</div><div><br></div><div>(3) annual_data_zonal.nc</div><div>- Datasets in subgroup 'mass' were used to plot fig.4</div><div>- Datasets in subgroup 'numc' were used to plot fig.6</div><div><br></div><div>(4) monthly_data_zonal.nc</div><div><br></div><div>The following files (./activation_diameter) contain the histogram counts of activation diameters for each aerosol type at selected altitude from the daily outputs. The datasets were used for producing fig.13.</div><div><br></div><div>(5) acti_diam_dust.csv for soil dust (fig.13a)</div><div>(6) acti_diam_salt.csv for sea salt (fig.13b)</div><div>(7) acti_diam_sulfate.csv for sulfate (fig.13c)</div><div>(8) acti_diam_oc.csv for organic carbon (fig.13d)</div>