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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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- Date (Creation)
- 2019-02-12
- Date (Revision)
- 2019-02-12
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-02-12
- Date (released)
- 2019-02-12
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.5285/bbf12a6f-7d97-4951-9bd1-e4224e2abac9
- Codespace
- doi
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01137
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: van de Berg, W., van Wessem, M., van de Broeke, M., Turner, J., & Phillips, T. (2019). 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 (Version 1) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/bbf12a6f-7d97-4951-9bd1-e4224e2abac9
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
Author
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation
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Turner, John
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Researcher
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Author
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation
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Phillips, Tony
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Researcher
)
Point of contact
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB3 0ET
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- license License
- Other constraints
- This dataset is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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- Codespace
- url
- Association Type
- crossReference Cross reference
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1979-01-01
- End date
- 2017-07-31
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
Distributor
Distributor
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB3 0ET
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
- Name
- application/netcdf
- Units of distribution
- bytes
- Transfer size
- 4509715661
- OnLine resource
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- dataset Dataset
- File identifier
- bbf12a6f-7d97-4951-9bd1-e4224e2abac9 XML
- Metadata language
- engEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-02-12
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
Point of contact
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB3 0ET
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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