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Dataset

 

SASSO data from the Met Office Unified Model

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2024-03-05
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2024-09-04
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 240 Files | 18MB

Abstract

This dataset is the Met Office Unified Model data that was used in the SASSO-funded study:
Damany-Pearce, L., Johnson, B., Wells, A. et al. Australian wildfires cause the largest stratospheric warming since Pinatubo and extends the lifetime of the Antarctic ozone hole. Sci Rep 12, 12665 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15794-3

As part of the SASSO project researchers collaborated with the Met Office and used the UK Earth System Model (UKESM1) to investigate the impact of the intense wildfires and resulting smoke injections in the stratosphere. The work concluded that: Australian wildfires cause the largest stratospheric warming since Pinatubo and extended the lifetime of the Antarctic ozone hole. Data provided here is from the UKESM1 simulations used in those investigations.

Specifically the data consists of zonal mean air temperature (T) and horizonal wind (U) as monthly means. These are monthly means from a single year, since the simulations in the study ran just for a one year. In the dataset there are 3 groups of simulations, each with its own folder: "aerosol_and_ozone", "aerosol_only" and "ozone_only". In each group there are 10 simulations making up a 10 member ensemble. The zonal means are the average across all longitudes (-180 to 180).

Citable as:  Met office; Johnson, B. (2024): SASSO data from the Met Office Unified Model. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/025b174a38404e8bbc69ef7f144e577d/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Aerosol, ozone, stratosphere, model, wildfire, SASSO

Details

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Met Office Unified Model version 11.1

UKESM1 UKESM – The UK Earth System Modelling project [ukesm.ac.uk],

UKESM1: Description and Evaluation of the U.K. Earth System Model [agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com]

Data Quality:
Data has been produced from Met Office outputs via Python Iris version 3.7
File Format:
Files are Net-CDF formatted

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Data was generated from UKESM1, the UK Earth System Model Version 1, which is a configuration of the Met Office Unified Model. Simulations are described in Damany-Pearce et al. (2022): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15794-3.

Abstract

Data was generated from UKESM1, the UK Earth System Model Version 1, which is a configuration of the Met Office Unified Model. Simulations are described in Damany-Pearce et al. (2022): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15794-3.

Input Description

None

Output Description

None

Software Reference

None

No variables found.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2020-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2020-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°