Description: 
Data created by Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio, Texas A&M

*Further details on the data and analysis are currently being prepared for submission to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). Once the BAMS article is published, the DOI will be included here for reference if you use this dataset.

* There are two types of files: native-grid files (diag.*.nc) and post-processed files (deg.25*.nc).

* The post-processed files contain 28 variables. These files are conservatively regridded to a latitude-longitude grid with a spatial resolution of approximately 30 km, comparable to ERA5. For more details on the regridding process, see Núñez Ocasio et al. (2024) (https://doi.org/10.1029/2023MS004070) and Núñez Ocasio and Dougherty (2024) (https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL112341).

* A complete list of variables for both post-processed and native-grid files is included in a PDF in this GDEX archive.

Additional Information:
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1- Add “rainc” (accumulated convective precipitation in mm) and “rainnc” (accumulated total grid-scale precipitation in mm) to obtain total rainfall rates and also subtract previous hour amounts in order to get hourly rates. In Python, for example:
        a. precip = (ds_new.rainc.sel(lat=slice(0, 18), lon=slice(-33, 18)) + ds_new.rainnc.sel(lat=slice(0, 18), lon=slice(-33,18)) ).diff('xtime')

2- 700-hPa relative vorticity is calculated using “uzonal_700hPa” (reconstructed zonal wind at cell centers, vertically interpolated to 850 hP in m s^{-1}) and “umeridional_700hPa” (reconstructed meridional wind at cell centers, vertically interpolated to 850 hP in m s^{-1})) variables

3- "dtheta_dt_mp_isobaric"- Potential temperature heating rate from microphysics in K s^{-1}

4- “umeridional_isobaric”- Meridional wind interpolated to isobaric surfaces in m s^{-1}

5- “uzonal_isobaric”- Zonal wind interpolated to isobaric surfaces in m s^{-1}

6- “qv_isobaric”- Water vapor mixing ratio interpolated to isobaric surfaces in kg kg^{-1}

7- “rh_isobaric”- Relative humidity interpolated to isobaric surfaces in %

8- Vertical mass flux (w x rho) is calculated using "w_isobaric" (vertical wind interpolated to isobaric surfaces in m s^{-1}) and "rho_isobaric" (dry air density interpolated to isobaric surfaces in kg/m^3)


History:
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README created February 2025 by Kelly M. Núñez Ocasio