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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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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01071
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-04-05
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01071
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- 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
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- Polar WRF
- West Antarctica
- high-resolution regional modelling
- hindcast
- Use limitation
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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.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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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.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- 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
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- Protocol
- http
- Name
- GET DATA
- Function
- download Download
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- No special comments
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01071 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2018-04-05
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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