GSWP-2 MMA Daily Fields

Note that to delineate the daily multi-model mean data (based on 10-years data 1986-1995) in the NetCDF data files, each variable name is preceeded by M_.

The ALMA standard daily fields for the GSWP-2 baseline simulation are listed in the table below. The daily data set spans 10 years (1986-1995) so 3652 time steps are represented. A text dump of the header information from one of the NetCDF flies is provided as well.

GrADS-Data Server (GDS; DODS/OPeNDAP compliant) access to the monthly data.

The sign convention shown is traditional meteorological convention. See http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/ALMA/ for a detailed discussion of these variables.

Because different LSSs have different vertical discretizations of soil layers, soil moisture and temperature have been interpolated to a common profile of six layers with thicknesses of 0.1, 0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.5m, for a total depth of 1.5m.

Variable	Description	Units	Sign (+)
O.4) Subsurface state variables
SoilMoist	Average layer soil moisture (6 layers)	kg m^-2	Pos.Def.
SoilTemp	Average layer soil temperature (6 layers)	K	Pos.Def.
NormSurfSoilWet	Normalized surface soil wetness (0.0-0.1m)	Std.dev.	Pos.Anomaly
NormDeepSoilWet	Normalized column soil wetness (0.0-1.0m)	Std.dev.	Pos.Anomaly