Dataset
ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Vertically resolved water vapour - stratosphere (CCI WV-strato, CDR-3), v3.3
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.
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: 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
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| File Format: |
Data are in NetCDF format
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Process overview
| 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
Temporal Range
1985-01-01T00:00:00
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |