Antarctic daily precipitation amounts for January 1979 - July 2017 from the RACMO version 3p2 limited area atmospheric model, along with flags that indicate extreme precipitation events

Two netcdf files are provided that contain daily precipitation amounts for January 1979 - July 2017 from the RACMO version 3p2 limited area, atmosphere-only model. The model is described in van Wessem, J. M., C. H. Reijmer, M. Morlighem, J. Mouginot, E. Rignot, B. Medley, and E. van Meijgaard, (2014) Improved representation of East Antarctic surface mass balance in a regional atmospheric climate model, Journal of Glaciology, 60, 761-770. The model was run over a 262 by 240 grid point domain covering Antarctica and parts of the Southern Ocean. The model was forced at the lateral boundaries by data from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) Interim reanalysis (ERA-Interim). Flags are provided for extreme precipitation events. A precipitation day was taken as a daily total of precipitation of greater than 0.02 mm. Extreme precipitation events were then taken as days when daily precipitation amount was greater than the 90th percentile of the daily precipitation values over the period 1979 - 2016.

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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01137
Date (Publication)
2020-01-29
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01137
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation

van de Berg, W., van Wessem, M., van de Broeke, M., Turner, J., & Phillips, T.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

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Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Precipitation Amount
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Language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1979-01-01
End date
2017-07-31
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
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    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    OnLine resource
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    http

         		https://ramadda.data.bas.ac.uk/repository/entry/show?entryid=bbf12a6f-7d97-4951-9bd1-e4224e2abac9

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    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
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    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
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    No
    Statement

    No special comments

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01137 XML
    Metadata language
    English
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    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2020-01-29
    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

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    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01137

     
     

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