Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation of West Antarctic climate, summer 1980-2015

High-resolution simulation of summer climate over West Antarctica using the Polar-optimised version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model conducted at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK. Runs are conducted for summer (January-centred) 1980-2015, i.e. from December 1979 to February 2015, for December, January and February (DJF). Experiments were carried out for the NERC West Antarctic Grant (NE/K00445X/1) during 2014-2017. The project is aimed at understanding the variability and climatology over the West Antarctic ice sheet and ice shelves as well as to project the future change over the twenty-first century.

The model outer domain encompasses the West Antarctic ice sheet and a large part of the surrounding ocean at 45 km horizontal grid spacing, and the nested (one-way) inner domain covers the Amundsen Sea Embayment at 15 km grid spacing. The model uses vertical eta coordinates with both domains have a model top of 50 hPa, and 30 vertical levels.

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01071
Date (Publication)
2018-04-05
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01071
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK

Deb, P., Orr, A., & Turner, J.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Pressure > Surface Pressure

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature > Surface Air Temperature

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Boundary Layer Winds

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Glaciers/Ice Sheets > Ice Sheets

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Polar WRF

  • West Antarctica

  • high-resolution regional modelling

  • hindcast
Use limitation

This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ and the following condition .



Please cite both the data and literature reference in any publication as follows:



DATA REFERENCE

Deb, P., Orr, A. & Turner, J. "Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation of West Antarctic climate, summer 1980-2015" (2018) Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK doi:10.5285/9536f22e-37dd-4f37-948b-e19c70e15292



LITERATURE REFERENCE

Deb et al., 2016 and Deb et al., 2018.
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Other constraints

This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ and the following condition .



Please cite both the data and literature reference in any publication as follows:



DATA REFERENCE

Deb, P., Orr, A. & Turner, J. "Polar Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulation of West Antarctic climate, summer 1980-2015" (2018) Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK doi:10.5285/9536f22e-37dd-4f37-948b-e19c70e15292



LITERATURE REFERENCE

Deb et al., 2016 and Deb et al., 2018.
Language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1979-12-01
End date
2015-02-28
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    http

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    Dataset

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    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    No special comments

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01071 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2018-04-05
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01071

     
     

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