Dataset
VERA: West Africa current vegetation and 1950 vegetation scenario ensemble mean data for June 2014
Latest Data Update: 2023-03-27
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2021-02-19
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 52 Files | 9GB
Abstract
This dataset contains netcdf files produced from the output of UK Met Office Unified Model atmosphere-only simulations over West Africa for current vegetation and 1950s vegetation scenarios. The region covered is 20W to 20E, 0N-25N and simulations were run for 5 days from 1st June 2014 conditions using boundary conditions and sea surface temperature from ERA-Interim reanalysis.
The files contain ensemble means (from 10 member ensembles) and the results of a paired Student's T-Test between the two scenarios. There are also files for specific longitude bands and some averaged over 16W-16E, 4N-15N for all land, deforested land and unchanged land. The data is mostly hourly and allows analysis of the impact of recent deforestation in this region. The simulations were run by Julia Crook (University of Leeds) on the ARCHER supercomputer.
This data was collected as part of the NERC project 'Vegetation Effects on Rainfall in West Africa (VERA)'.
Citable as: Crook, J. (2021): VERA: West Africa current vegetation and 1950 vegetation scenario ensemble mean data for June 2014. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/db259fd2bad64b6da9af884121a160a6
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: VERA, Vegetation, Africa, model
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Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). |
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Data are as given by the data provider, no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Process overview
This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
| Title | UK Met Office atmosphere-only Unified Model (UM v8.2) |
| Abstract | The simulations were run using the UK Met Office atmosphere-only Unified Model (UM v8.2). |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: x_wind
- long_name: 10 METRE WIND U-COMP B GRID
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i225_current
- names: x_wind, 10 METRE WIND U-COMP B GRID
- units: m s-1
- standard_name: y_wind
- long_name: 10 METRE WIND V-COMP B GRID
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i226_current
- names: y_wind, 10 METRE WIND V-COMP B GRID
- var_id: DAY_MN
- long_name: EVAPORATIVE FRACTION
- standard_name: evaporative_fraction
- var_id: ef_current
- names: EVAPORATIVE FRACTION, evaporative_fraction
- long_name: FRACTIONS OF SURFACE TYPES
- var_id: field1391
- names: FRACTIONS OF SURFACE TYPES, field1391
- standard_name: P_ECMWF
- var_id: P_ECMWF
- names: P_ECMWF
- long_name: ROUGHNESS LEN. AFTER B.L. (SEE DOC)
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i026_current
- names: ROUGHNESS LEN. AFTER B.L. (SEE DOC)
- standard_name: SINGLE
- var_id: SINGLE
- names: SINGLE
- standard_name: SINGL_L2
- var_id: SINGL_L2
- names: SINGL_L2
- units: kg m-2
- long_name: SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT IN A LAYER
- standard_name: moisture_content_of_soil_layer
- var_id: STASH_m01s08i223_current
- names: SOIL MOISTURE CONTENT IN A LAYER, moisture_content_of_soil_layer
- var_id: STASH_m01s00i409_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i026_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i217_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i217_ttest_all
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i217_ttest_deforest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i217_ttest_unchanged
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i225_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i226_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i234_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i236_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i330_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s05i216_ttest
- var_id: STASH_m01s05i216_ttest_all
- var_id: STASH_m01s05i216_ttest_deforest
- var_id: STASH_m01s05i216_ttest_unchanged
- var_id: STASH_m01s08i223_ttest
- units: W m-2
- standard_name: surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux
- long_name: SURFACE HEAT FLUX W/M2
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i217_current_unchanged
- names: surface_upward_sensible_heat_flux, SURFACE HEAT FLUX W/M2
- long_name: SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUX ON TILES
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i330_current
- names: SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUX ON TILES
- long_name: SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUX W/M2
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i234_current
- names: SURFACE LATENT HEAT FLUX W/M2
- units: Pa
- standard_name: surface_air_pressure
- long_name: SURFACE PRESSURE AFTER TIMESTEP
- var_id: STASH_m01s00i409_current
- names: surface_air_pressure, SURFACE PRESSURE AFTER TIMESTEP
- units: K
- standard_name: air_temperature
- long_name: TEMPERATURE AT 1.5M
- var_id: STASH_m01s03i236_current
- names: air_temperature, TEMPERATURE AT 1.5M
- units: K
- standard_name: air_temperature
- long_name: TEMPERATURE ON P LEV/UV GRID
- var_id: stability_700_900_current
- names: air_temperature, TEMPERATURE ON P LEV/UV GRID
- var_id: TH1
- var_id: TH1_MN
- standard_name: TH_SOIL
- var_id: TH_SOIL
- names: TH_SOIL
- long_name: TOTAL PRECIPITATION RATE KG/M2/S
- var_id: STASH_m01s05i216_current_unchanged
- names: TOTAL PRECIPITATION RATE KG/M2/S
- long_name: convergence 10m
- standard_name: convergence 10m
- units: m s-1 km-1
- var_id: convergence_current
- names: convergence 10m
- var_id: convergence_ttest
- var_id: ef_ttest
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: grid_latitude_t
- var_id: grid_latitude_t
- names: grid_latitude_t
- standard_name: grid_latitude_uv
- var_id: grid_latitude_uv
- names: grid_latitude_uv
- standard_name: grid_longitude_t
- var_id: grid_longitude_t
- names: grid_longitude_t
- standard_name: grid_longitude_uv
- var_id: grid_longitude_uv
- names: grid_longitude_uv
- units: degrees
- long_name: latitude in rotated pole grid
- standard_name: grid_latitude
- var_id: rlat
- names: latitude in rotated pole grid, grid_latitude
- var_id: log_STASH_m01s05i216_1950
- var_id: log_STASH_m01s05i216_current
- units: degrees
- long_name: longitude in rotated pole grid
- standard_name: grid_longitude
- var_id: rlon
- names: longitude in rotated pole grid, grid_longitude
- units: level
- var_id: pseudo
- long_name: pseudo
- names: pseudo
- var_id: rotated_latitude_longitude
- var_id: rotated_pole
- var_id: stability_700_900_ttest
- var_id: t
- long_name: t
- names: t
Co-ordinate Variables
- units: degrees_north
- standard_name: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- var_id: latitude_uv
- names: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- var_id: longitude_uv
- names: longitude
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2014-06-01T00:00:00
End time:
2014-06-05T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
25.0000° |
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-20.0000° |
20.0000° |
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0.0000° |
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