• NERC Data Catalogue Service
  •  
  •  
  •  

Thermospheric cooling under RCP8.5 due to carbon dioxide increases only, select years from 1975-2095.

This dataset contains WACCM-X model results under RCP8.5 (Representative Concentration Pathway) carbon dioxide increases and low solar activity. These cover ground level to a pressure level of 4e-10 hPa (~300 km altitude) on a global 144x96 longitude-latitude grid .

Data is given in daily instantaneous files in the netCDF format. Default WACCM-X outputs remain, along with the following additional variables:

'PS' - Surface Pressure

'Z3' - Geopotential Height (above sea level)

'T' - Temperature

'U' - Zonal Wind

'V' - Meridional Wind

'CO2' - Carbon Dioxide Concentration

'CO' - Carbon Monoxide Concentration

'NO' - Nitric Oxide Concentration

'H2O' - Water Vapour Concentration

'O' - Atomic Oxygen Concentration

More detail on each variable is given within the netCDF files and the readme file.

16 month runs from edited initial files at 10 year intervals from 2005 to 2095 under RCP8.5. There is also a 16 month 1975 run and 64 month 2000 run. All of these cyclically repeat the initial year. These are separated into individual folders with the RCP8.5 CO2 concentration listed. The first 4 months of each of these datasets have been ignored in processing as the model spins up, but are included here for completeness.

This data was collected to understand the density drop at low earth orbit altitudes as carbon dioxide concentrations increase.

Simple

Date (Publication)
2020-04-01T08:20:21
Date (Creation)
2020-04-01T08:20:21
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0bb41477e0a5416190459433cb5ab907
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 0bb41477e0a5416190459433cb5ab907
Identifier
doi / 10.5285/0bb41477e0a5416190459433cb5ab907
Author
  Unavailable - Brown, Matthew ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Brown, Matthew ( principal_investigator )
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • thermospheric
  • cooling
  • model
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Begin date
1975-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2095-12-31T00:00:00
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

Detail and access information for the resource

OnLine resource
DOWNLOAD

Download Data

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Input data other than default is obtained from the subversion input data repository at https://svn-ccsm-inputdata.cgd.ucar.edu/trunk/

These files changed in user_nl_cam include

solar_parms_file = '/.../inputdata/atm/waccm/phot/wa_smin_quiet_c071210.nc'

srf_emis_specifier = 'CH2O -> /.../inputdata/atm/cam/chem/2000-2100_RCP45/IPCC_emissions_houw_CH2O_2000-2100_1.9x2.5.nc',

'CO -> /.../inputdata/atm/cam/chem/2000-2100_RCP45/IPCC_emissions_houw_CO_2000-2100_1.9x2.5.nc',

'NO -> /.../inputdata/atm/cam/chem/2000-2100_RCP45/IPCC_emissions_houw_NOx_2000-2100_1.9x2.5.nc'

aero_file = 'aero_rcp45_v1_1.9x2.5_L26_1995-2105_c100316.nc'

solar_data_file = '/.../inputdata/atm/cam/solar/spectral_irradiance_Lean_1950-2100_daily_CCMI_Leap_c150727.nc'

1975 run used all default input files.

Initial conditions are those of the default year 2000 run, with CO2 and CO concentrations in the initial files edited as described within the paper (Brown et al, 2020).

The files uploaded here at CEDA are the raw files output by WACCM-X with no editing.

File identifier
0bb41477e0a5416190459433cb5ab907 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:19:19
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
atmospheric conditions

Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •