Cascade - Scale interactions in the tropical atmosphere model runs
Cascade was a NERC funded consortium project to study organized convection in the tropical atmosphere using large domain cloud system resolving model simulations.
This datset collection contains measurements from atmospheric model runs of the tropics.
Within the Cascade project a version of the Met Office Unified Model (UM) at horizontal resolutions of 1.5km - 40km was used Africa, Indian Ocean and West Pacific Ocean. The horizontal resolution allowed the individual cloud systems to simulate the large-scale organization. The combination of the high resolution and large domains allowed the upscale transports of heat, moisture and momentum and investigated the impact of these transports on the evolution of the synoptic and planetary scale systems.
Two domains of interest were chosen to represent continental and oceanic convection respectively. Simulations of the West African Monsoon region were used to understand the range of factors which influence the diurnal cycle of convection over complex topography and to identify the impact of the diurnal cycle and other mesoscale organization on the synoptic organization of convection by African Easterly Waves. Simulations of the Indian Ocean and West Pacific Warm Pool were used to investigate the role of mesoscale and synoptic scale organization on the evolution of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and the influence of the diurnal cycle (e.g. land-sea breeze circulations) on the maintenance of the climate of the Maritime Continent region. In addition, simulations over an idealized ocean surface were used to investigate the organization of convection by equatorially trapped wave modes.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:15:37
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2008-12-10T03:15:37
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 20981e3052a66ca71c2ba92b94760150
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- Cascade
- atmosphere
- UM
- Unified Model
- tropical
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Other constraints
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- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2002-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2010-04-16T22:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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CASCADE: Cloud System Resolving Modelling of the Tropical Atmosphere
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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CASCADE: Cloud System Resolving Modelling of the Tropical Atmosphere
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- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 20981e3052a66ca71c2ba92b94760150 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2024-01-30T01:48:02
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3