Influence of Ocean Surface Conditions on the Regional Climate of the
Northernmost Atlantic, 1988-2004
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS159

Summary
This data set includes simulations data of the Greenland region created with
the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research
(NCAR) Fifth-Generation Mesoscale Model (MM5) modified for use in polar
regions (Polar MM5) using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
(ECMWF) Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) initial boundary
conditions. The regional climate model demonstrates regional patterns for the
Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (SMB) change over a 17-year period
(1988-2004) characterized by warming. The Polar MM5 is reinitialized once a
day at the surface and continuously updated every 12 hours at the lateral
boundaries with the 2.5 degree horizontal resolution ECMWF operational
analyses. The 6-hourly data are averaged to produce monthly means for 2-m
temperature (C), 2-m specific humidity (g/kg), zonal wind at 10 m (m/s) ,
meridional wind at 10 m (m/s), wind speed at 10 m (m/s), and precipitation
(monthly total in mm). Data have a 24 km spatial resolution and are based on
the Polar Stereographic grid projection. Data are in 2-byte binary format.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 106.ARCSS159
 * doi:10.5065/D6V69GQC
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V69GQC

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Bromwich, D. 2008. Influence of Ocean Surface Conditions on the Regional
 Climate of the Northernmost Atlantic, 1988-2004. Version 1.0. UCAR/NCAR -
 Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V69GQC Accessed 30 Dec
 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NSF NCAR EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * ARCSS: NSF Arctic System Science
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/ARCSS

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: 12 hourly
 * Language: English

ISO Topic Categories
 * climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Categories
 * Arctic
 * Meteorology
 * Models/Analyses
 * Terrestrial Ecosystems

Platforms
 * NCAR/PSU MM5

Instruments
 * Computer

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > SPECIFIC HUMIDITY
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS
 * EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > WEATHER RESEARCH/FORECAST MODELS

Documentation
 * readme.txt [5 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/417D64E5309/readme.txt

Related links
 * info: ARCSS Data Policy
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/arctic_projects/arcss/Data_Policy.html
 * homepage: ARCSS EOL Webpage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/arcss
 * download: NSF Arctic Data Center
   https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V69GQC

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 1988-01-01 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2004-12-31 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 83.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 59.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -72.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -12.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: EOL Data Support <datahelp@eol.ucar.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/1

Additional contact information
 * author: David H. Bromwich <bromwich.1@osu.edu>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/783

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS159?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS159?format=isotc211