Dataset
Envelope field of Northern hemispheric upper tropospheric (300 hPa) quasi-stationary waves (June 1979 to August 2015)
Abstract
This dataset comprises 12 hourly data of the envelope field of Northern hemispheric upper tropospheric (300 hPa) quasi-stationary waves calculated between1979-06-01 and 2015-08-31. The data were derived as part of the NERC funded ODYSEA project (Ocean Dynamics as Driver of Seasonal to Decadal European Atmospheric variability).
The envelope field in this dataset is a phase-independent measure of the wave amplitude and is derived from the meridional wind at 300 hPa of the ERA-Interim reanalysis data. To remove the faster transient signals a 15-day lowpass filter was applied to the meridional wind and then subtracted from a daily climatology. The envelope field allows for the identification of a slowly evolving stationary or slowly moving wave packet.
Full details of the method are described in the methodology statement that can be found in the docs section.
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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: |
The data were produced as part of the NERC project Ocean Dynamics as Driver of Seasonal to Decadal European Atmospheric variability (ODYSEA; NE/M006107/1) and passed to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for archival and distribution. |
| Data Quality: |
The data were quality controlled by the project team and no quality control has been performed by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
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The data are provided in a single NetCDF file.
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Related Documents
| Calculation methodology |
Citations: 1
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| Wolf, G., Brayshaw, D.J. & Klingaman, N.P. (2022) Response of atmospheric quasi‐stationary waves to La Niña conditions in Northern Hemisphere winter. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 148, 1611–1622. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4261 https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4261 |
Process overview
| Title | Calculation of the envelope field of Northern hemispheric upper tropospheric (300 hPa) quasi-stationary waves ( June 1979 to August 2015) |
| Abstract | The data are calculated from the meridional wind in ERA-Interim. A lowpass filter of 15-days is applied and the daily climatology (also lowpass filtered) subtracted. The method of Zimin et al. 2003 with a latitude dependent wavenumber range is then applied. The description of this method and the discussion about the climatology of quasi-stationary waves (this dataset) and their connection to European temperature anomalies and extreme events can be found in the attached methodology statement. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- units: mbar
- var_id: air_pressure
- long_name: air_pressure
- units: m s**-1
- long_name: envelope_field_quasi_stationary_waves
- var_id: QSW
- units: degrees_north
- var_id: latitude
- long_name: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- var_id: longitude
- long_name: longitude
- long_name: time
- var_id: time
Co-ordinate Variables
Temporal Range
1976-05-31T23:00:00
2015-12-31T12:00:00
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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0.0000° |