The file EC_tend.nc includes the tendencies of temperature, moisture and wind velocity at the SHEBA column. It is a subset of ECMWF.nc, which includes all the ECMWF variables in over the entire SHEBA column. For a detailed description of the file ECMWF.nc, visit http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~breth/SHEBA/ECMWF.html.
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netCDF VARIABLE NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
UNITS |
nc{'yymmddhh'} |
time |
[UTC] |
nc{'Jdd'} |
Julian day 1997 |
[decimal day] |
nc{'sigma'} |
normalized pressure height, full levels |
[UTC] |
nc{'psurf'} |
surface pressure |
[Pa] |
nc{'u'} |
zonal wind component |
[m/s] |
nc{'v'} |
meridional wind component |
[m/s] |
nc{'T'} |
temperature |
[K] |
nc{'qv'} |
specific humidity |
[kg/kg] |
nc{'omega'} |
vertical velocity in pressure coordinates |
[Pa/s] |
nc{'dTdt-adiabatic'} |
total adiabatic T tendency (*1) |
[K/s] |
nc{'dqdt-adiabatic'} |
total adiabatic moisture tendency (*1) |
[s^-1] |
nc{'dudt-adiabatic'} |
total adiabatic u tendency (*1) |
[m/s^2] |
nc{'dvdt-adiabatic'} |
total adiabatic v tendency (*1) |
[m/s^2] |