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Dataset

 

ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Vertically resolved water vapour - stratosphere (CCI WV-strato, CDR-3), v3.3

Latest Data Update: 2022-10-21
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2022-10-21
DOI Publication Date: 2022-11-22
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 2 Files | 8MB

Abstract

This water vapour (WV) climate data record (CCI WV-strato or WV_cci CDR-3) has been generated within the European Space Agency (ESA) Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water Vapour_cci). CCI WV-strato is a merged product based on a number of WV datasets obtained from limb and solar occultation satellite instruments. CCI WV-strato features zonal monthly mean vertically resolved water vapour in the stratosphere, covers a pressure range from 300 to 0.1 hPa at 5 degree latitudinal resolution, and spans the time period between 1985 and 2019.

This version of the data is v3.3.

Citable as:  Hegglin, M.I.; Ye, H.; Froidevaux, L.; Plummer, D.; Sioris, C.; Walker, K.; Wang, H.-J. (2022): ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Vertically resolved water vapour - stratosphere (CCI WV-strato, CDR-3), v3.3. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 22 November 2022. doi:10.5285/92824e3ec2e44a58b10048df3209b99c. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/92824e3ec2e44a58b10048df3209b99c
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: stratospheric water vapour, ESA Climate Change Initiative, CCI

Details

Previous Info:
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Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
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):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_watervapour_terms_and_conditions.pdf
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

Data Quality:
For information on the data quality see the water vapour CCI documentation
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Derivation of ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Vertically resolved water vapour - stratosphere (CCI WV-strato, CDR-3), v3.3

Abstract

CCI WV-strato is based on multiple limb satellite sounders (SAGE II, UARS-MLS, HALOE, POAM III, SMR, SAGE III, SCIAMACHY, MIPAS, ACE-FTS, ACE-MAESTRO, Aura-MLS and SAGE III/ISS) merged using a chemistry-climate model in specified dynamics mode as transfer function following the methodology established in Hegglin et al. (2014).

Input Description

Hegglin, et al., J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., doi:10.1029/2013JD019614, 2013

Output Description

None

Software Reference

Hegglin, M. I., D. Plummer, J. Scinocca, T. G. Shepherd, J. Anderson, L. Froidevaux, B. Funke, D. Hurst, A. Rozanov, J. Urban, T. v. Clarmann, K. A. Walker, R. Wang, S. Tegtmeier, and K. Weigel, (2014). Vertical structure of stratospheric water vapour trends derived from merged satellite data,. Nature Geoscience. None

  • units: 1
  • long_name: Number of Instrument Values per Climatological Bin
  • var_id: zmh2o_nr
  • names: Number of Instrument Values per Climatological Bin
  • units: Pa
  • long_name: Pressure
  • standard_name: air_pressure
  • var_id: plev
  • names: air_pressure, Pressure
  • var_id: quality_flag
  • long_name: Quality Flag of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • names: Quality Flag of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • long_name: Standard Deviation of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • units: moles mole-1
  • var_id: zmh2o_std
  • names: Standard Deviation of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • units: moles mole-1
  • long_name: Uncertainty of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • var_id: zmh2o_err
  • names: Uncertainty of Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • standard_name: mole_fraction_of_water_vapor_in_air
  • var_id: zmh2o
  • long_name: Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • units: moles mole-1
  • names: mole_fraction_of_water_vapor_in_air, Zonal Mean Water Vapour Volume Mixing Ratio
  • var_id: lat_bnds
  • var_id: time_bnds

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • long_name: Latitude
  • names: latitude, Latitude
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • long_name: Time
  • names: time, Time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1985-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°