Hydrological and meteorological information can help inform the conditions and risk factors related to the environment and their inhabitants. Due to the limitations of observation sampling, gridded data sets provide the modeled information for areas where data collection are infeasible using observations collected and known process relations. Although available, data users are faced with barriers to use, challenges like how to access, acquire, then analyze data for small watershed areas, when these datasets were produced for large, continental scale processes. In this tutorial, we introduce Observatory for Gridded Hydrometeorology (OGH) to resolve such hurdles in a use-case that incorporates NetCDF gridded data sets processes developed to interpret the findings and apply secondary modeling frameworks (landlab).

LEARNING OBJECTIVES - Familiarize with data management, metadata management, and analyses with gridded data - Inspecting and problem solving with Python libraries - Explore data architecture and processes - Learn about OGH Python Library - Discuss conceptual data engineering and science operations

Use-case operations: 1. Prepare computing environment 2. Get list of grid cells 3. NetCDF retrieval and clipping to a spatial extent 4. Extract NetCDF metadata and convert NetCDFs to 1D ASCII time-series files 5. Visualize the average monthly total precipitations 6. Apply summary values as modeling inputs 7. Visualize modeling outputs 8. Save results in a new HydroShare resource

For inquiries, issues, or contribute to the developments, please refer to https://github.com/freshwater-initiative/Observatory

This dataset contains information on the Surface Soil Moisture (SM) content derived from satellite observations in the microwave domain.

Dataset paper (public preprint)

A description of this dataset, including the methodology and validation results, is available at:

Preimesberger, W., Stradiotti, P., and Dorigo, W.: ESA CCI Soil Moisture GAPFILLED: An independent global gap-free satellite climate data record with uncertainty estimates, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-610, in review, 2025.

Abstract

ESA CCI Soil Moisture is a multi-satellite climate data record that consists of harmonized, daily observations coming from 19 satellites (as of v09.1) operating in the microwave domain. The wealth of satellite information, particularly over the last decade, facilitates the creation of a data record with the highest possible data consistency and coverage.
However, data gaps are still found in the record. This is particularly notable in earlier periods when a limited number of satellites were in operation, but can also arise from various retrieval issues, such as frozen soils, dense vegetation, and radio frequency interference (RFI). These data gaps present a challenge for many users, as they have the potential to obscure relevant events within a study area or are incompatible with (machine learning) software that often relies on gap-free inputs.
Since the requirement of a gap-free ESA CCI SM product was identified, various studies have demonstrated the suitability of different statistical methods to achieve this goal. A fundamental feature of such gap-filling method is to rely only on the original observational record, without need for ancillary variable or model-based information. Due to the intrinsic challenge, there was until present no global, long-term univariate gap-filled product available. In this version of the record, data gaps due to missing satellite overpasses and invalid measurements are filled using the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Penalized Least Squares (PLS) algorithm (Garcia, 2010). A linear interpolation is applied over periods of (potentially) frozen soils with little to no variability in (frozen) soil moisture content. Uncertainty estimates are based on models calibrated in experiments to fill satellite-like gaps introduced to GLDAS Noah reanalysis soil moisture (Rodell et al., 2004), and consider the gap size and local vegetation conditions as parameters that affect the gapfilling performance.

Summary

• Gap-filled global estimates of volumetric surface soil moisture from 1991-2023 at 0.25° sampling
• Fields of application (partial): climate variability and change, land-atmosphere interactions, global biogeochemical cycles and ecology, hydrological and land surface modelling, drought applications, and meteorology
• Method: Modified version of DCT-PLS (Garcia, 2010) interpolation/smoothing algorithm, linear interpolation over periods of frozen soils. Uncertainty estimates are provided for all data points.
• More information: See Preimesberger et al. (2025) and https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8320869" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ESA CCI SM Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document [Chapter 7.2.9] (Dorigo et al., 2023)

Programmatic Download

You can use command line tools such as wget or curl to download (and extract) data for multiple years. The following command will download and extract the complete data set to the local directory ~/Download on Linux or macOS systems.

#!/bin/bash

# Set download directory
DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Downloads

base_url="https://researchdata.tuwien.at/records/3fcxr-cde10/files"

# Loop through years 1991 to 2023 and download & extract data
for year in {1991..2023}; do
  echo "Downloading $year.zip..."
  wget -q -P "$DOWNLOAD_DIR" "$base_url/$year.zip"
  unzip -o "$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$year.zip" -d $DOWNLOAD_DIR
  rm "$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$year.zip"
done

Data details

The dataset provides global daily estimates for the 1991-2023 period at 0.25° (~25 km) horizontal grid resolution. Daily images are grouped by year (YYYY), each subdirectory containing one netCDF image file for a specific day (DD), month (MM) in a 2-dimensional (longitude, latitude) grid system (CRS: WGS84). The file name has the following convention:

ESACCI-SOILMOISTURE-L3S-SSMV-COMBINED_GAPFILLED-YYYYMMDD000000-fv09.1r1.nc

Data Variables

Each netCDF file contains 3 coordinate variables (WGS84 longitude, latitude and time stamp), as well as the following data variables:

• sm: (float) The Soil Moisture variable reflects estimates of daily average volumetric soil moisture content (m3/m3) in the soil surface layer (~0-5 cm) over a whole grid cell (0.25 degree).
• sm_uncertainty: (float) The Soil Moisture Uncertainty variable reflects the uncertainty (random error) of the original satellite observations and of the predictions used to fill observation data gaps.
• sm_anomaly: Soil moisture anomalies (reference period 1991-2020) derived from the gap-filled values (`sm`)
• sm_smoothed: Contains DCT-PLS predictions used to fill data gaps in the original soil moisture field. These values are also provided for cases where an observation was initially available (compare `gapmask`). In this case, they provided a smoothed version of the original data.
• gapmask: (0 | 1) Indicates grid cells where a satellite observation is available (1), and where the interpolated (smoothed) values are used instead (0) in the 'sm' field.
• frozenmask: (0 | 1) Indicates grid cells where ERA5 soil temperature is <0 °C. In this case, a linear interpolation over time is applied.

Additional information for each variable is given in the netCDF attributes.

Version Changelog

Changes in v9.1r1 (previous version was v09.1):

• This version uses a novel uncertainty estimation scheme as described in Preimesberger et al. (2025).

Software to open netCDF files

These data can be read by any software that supports Climate and Forecast (CF) conform metadata standards for netCDF files, such as:

• https://github.com/pydata/xarray" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xarray (python)
• https://unidata.github.io/netcdf4-python/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">netCDF4 (python)
• https://github.com/TUW-GEO/esa_cci_sm">esa_cci_sm (python)
• Similar tools exists for other programming languages (Matlab, R, etc.)
• Software packages and GIS tools can open netCDF files, e.g. CDO, NCO, QGIS, ArCGIS
• You can also use the GUI software Panoply to view the contents of each file

References

• Preimesberger, W., Stradiotti, P., and Dorigo, W.: ESA CCI Soil Moisture GAPFILLED: An independent global gap-free satellite climate data record with uncertainty estimates, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2024-610, in review, 2025.
• Dorigo, W., Preimesberger, W., Stradiotti, P., Kidd, R., van der Schalie, R., van der Vliet, M., Rodriguez-Fernandez, N., Madelon, R., & Baghdadi, N. (2023). ESA Climate Change Initiative Plus - Soil Moisture Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) Supporting Product Version 08.1 (version 1.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8320869
• Garcia, D., 2010. Robust smoothing of gridded data in one and higher dimensions with missing values. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 54(4), pp.1167-1178. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2009.09.020
• Rodell, M., Houser, P. R., Jambor, U., Gottschalck, J., Mitchell, K., Meng, C.-J., Arsenault, K., Cosgrove, B., Radakovich, J., Bosilovich, M., Entin, J. K., Walker, J. P., Lohmann, D., and Toll, D.: The Global Land Data Assimilation System, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 85, 381 – 394, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-85-3-381, 2004.

Related Records

The following records are all part of the Soil Moisture Climate Data Records from satellites community

We implemented automated workflows using Jupyter notebooks for each state. The GIS processing, crucial for merging, extracting, and projecting GeoTIFF data, was performed using ArcPy—a Python package for geographic data analysis, conversion, and management within ArcGIS (Toms, 2015). After generating state-scale LES (large extent spatial) datasets in GeoTIFF format, we utilized the xarray and rioxarray Python packages to convert GeoTIFF to NetCDF. Xarray is a Python package to work with multi-dimensional arrays and rioxarray is rasterio xarray extension. Rasterio is a Python library to read and write GeoTIFF and other raster formats. Xarray facilitated data manipulation and metadata addition in the NetCDF file, while rioxarray was used to save GeoTIFF as NetCDF. These procedures resulted in the creation of three HydroShare resources (HS 3, HS 4 and HS 5) for sharing state-scale LES datasets. Notably, due to licensing constraints with ArcGIS Pro, a commercial GIS software, the Jupyter notebook development was undertaken on a Windows OS.

This dataset presents the output of the application of the Jarkus Analysis Toolbox (JAT) to the Jarkus dataset. The Jarkus dataset is one of the most elaborate coastal datasets in the world and consists of coastal profiles of the entire Dutch coast, spaced about 250-500 m apart, which have been measured yearly since 1965. Different available definitions for extracting characteristic parameters from coastal profiles were collected and implemented in the JAT. The characteristic parameters allow stakeholders (e.g. scientists, engineers and coastal managers) to study the spatial and temporal variations in parameters like dune height, dune volume, dune foot, beach width and closure depth. This dataset includes a netcdf file (on the opendap server, see data link) that contains all characteristic parameters through space and time, and a distribution plot that shows the overview of each characteristic parameters. The Jarkus Analysis Toolbox and all scripts that were used to extract the characteristic parameters and create the distribution plots are available through Github (https://github.com/christavanijzendoorn/JAT). Example 5 that is included in the JAT provides a python script that shows how to load and work with the netcdf file.Documentation: https://jarkus-analysis-toolbox.readthedocs.io/.

Python Source Code for geophys_utils utilities for accessing netCDF encoded geophysics data

Testing files for the xesmf remapping package.

The modeled data in these archives are in the NetCDF format (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/). NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. It is also a community standard for sharing scientific data. The Unidata Program Center supports and maintains netCDF programming interfaces for C, C++, Java, and Fortran. Programming interfaces are also available for Python, IDL, MATLAB, R, Ruby, and Perl. Data in netCDF format is: • Self-Describing. A netCDF file includes information about the data it contains. • Portable. A netCDF file can be accessed by computers with different ways of storing integers, characters, and floating-point numbers. • Scalable. Small subsets of large datasets in various formats may be accessed efficiently through netCDF interfaces, even from remote servers. • Appendable. Data may be appended to a properly structured netCDF file without copying the dataset or redefining its structure. • Sharable. One writer and multiple readers may simultaneously access the same netCDF file. • Archivable. Access to all earlier forms of netCDF data will be supported by current and future versions of the software. Pub_figures.tar.zip Contains the NCL scripts for figures 1-5 and Chesapeake Bay Airshed shapefile. The directory structure of the archive is ./Pub_figures/Fig#_data. Where # is the figure number from 1-5. EMISS.data.tar.zip This archive contains two NetCDF files that contain the emission totals for 2011ec and 2040ei emission inventories. The name of the files contain the year of the inventory and the file header contains a description of each variable and the variable units. EPIC.data.tar.zip contains the monthly mean EPIC data in NetCDF format for ammonium fertilizer application (files with ANH3 in the name) and soil ammonium concentration (files with NH3 in the name) for historical (Hist directory) and future (RCP-4.5 directory) simulations. WRF.data.tar.zip contains mean monthly and seasonal data from the 36km downscaled WRF simulations in the NetCDF format for the historical (Hist directory) and future (RCP-4.5 directory) simulations. CMAQ.data.tar.zip contains the mean monthly and seasonal data in NetCDF format from the 36km CMAQ simulations for the historical (Hist directory), future (RCP-4.5 directory) and future with historical emissions (RCP-4.5-hist-emiss directory). This dataset is associated with the following publication: Campbell, P., J. Bash, C. Nolte, T. Spero, E. Cooter, K. Hinson, and L. Linker. Projections of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, 12(11): 3307-3326, (2019).

Title:
Flume Experiment Dataset – Granular Flow Tests (2023)

Authors:
I. Koa, A. Recking, F. Gimbert, H. Bellot, G. Chambon, T. Faug

Contact:
islamkoaa111@gmail.com

Description:
This dataset contains NetCDF (.nc) files from controlled flume experiments conducted in 2023 to study the transition from bedload to complex granular flow dynamics on steep slopes. Each file name encodes the experiment date and test number (e.g., CanalMU-20-04-2023-test5.nc = Test 5 on April 20, 2023).

Each test corresponds to a specific discharge (Q) value, detailed in the table below.

Example filename:
CanalMU-20-04-2023-test5.nc → Test 5 conducted on April 20, 2023.

Discharge Table:

Discharge (l/s) | Date | Test Number
----------------|-------------|-------------
0.14 | 06-04-2023 | Test 3
0.14 | 04-05-2023 | Test 5
0.15 | 13-04-2023 | Test 3
0.15 | 14-04-2023 | Test 1
0.15 | 14-04-2023 | Test 2
0.16 | 17-04-2023 | Test 2
0.16 | 18-04-2023 | Test 3
0.16 | 04-05-2023 | Test 3
0.16 | 04-05-2023 | Test 4
0.17 | 18-04-2023 | Test 4
0.17 | 18-04-2023 | Test 5
0.17 | 20-04-2023 | Test 2
0.17 | 20-04-2023 | Test 4
0.17 | 20-04-2023 | Test 5
0.18 | 20-04-2023 | Test 8
0.18 | 20-04-2023 | Test 9
0.19 | 20-04-2023 | Test 10
0.19 | 20-04-2023 | Test 11
0.20 | 20-04-2023 | Test 12
0.20 | 04-05-2023 | Test 1
0.20 | 04-05-2023 | Test 2
0.21 | 20-04-2023 | Test 13
0.21 | 21-04-2023 | Test 1
0.21 | 21-04-2023 | Test 2
0.22 | 21-04-2023 | Test 3
0.22 | 21-04-2023 | Test 4
0.23 | 21-04-2023 | Test 5
0.23 | 27-04-2023 | Test 2
0.23 | 27-04-2023 | Test 3
0.23 | 28-04-2023 | Test 7
0.24 | 28-04-2023 | Test 1
0.24 | 28-04-2023 | Test 2
0.24 | 28-04-2023 | Test 3
0.25 | 28-04-2023 | Test 4
0.25 | 21-06-2023 | Test 1
0.26 | 28-04-2023 | Test 6
0.26 | 21-06-2023 | Test 3
0.26 | 21-06-2023 | Test 4
0.27 | 22-06-2023 | Test 2
0.27 | 22-06-2023 | Test 3
0.27 | 22-06-2023 | Test 1

Data Acquisition and Processing:
The original data were acquired using LabVIEW and saved in TDMS (.tdms) format. These files were processed using custom Python scripts to extract synchronized time-series data, assign physical units, and store the results in structured NetCDF-4 files.

NetCDF File Structure:
Each file includes the following structured groups and variables:

1. Group: Data_Hydro (Hydraulic Measurements)
- Time_Hydro: Time [s]
- Date_et_heure_mesure: Measurement timestamps [string]
- Etat_de_l'interrupteur: Switch state [V]
- Debit_liquide_instant: Instantaneous water discharge [L/s]
- Debit_liquide_consigne: Target water discharge [L/s]
- Vitesse_tapis_instant: Instantaneous conveyor speed [m/s]
- Vitesse_tapis_consigne: Set conveyor speed [V]
- Debit_solide_instant: Instantaneous solid discharge [g/s]
- Hauteur1–4: Water heights from four sensors [cm]

2. Group: Data_Force (Impact Force Measurements)
- Time_Force: Time [s]
- Force_Normale: Vertical impact force [N]
- Force_Tangentielle: Tangential force [N]

3. Group: Data_Annexe (Experimental Metadata)
- channel_width, Channel_slope: Flume geometry
- Position_capteur_hauteur1–4: Water sensor locations [m]
- Position_capteur_force: Force sensor position [m]
- Plaque dimensions and mass: Plate size and weight [m, kg]
- Sensor frequencies and sensitivities [Hz, pC/N]

Format:
NetCDF-4 (.nc)

Suggested software for reading:
- Python (xarray, netCDF4)
- NASA Panoply
- MATLAB

Note:
The data were processed using custom Python scripts. These are available from the corresponding author upon request.

Example: Accessing NetCDF Data in Python

The dataset can be read using the `netCDF4` or `xarray` libraries in Python. Below is a simple example using netCDF4:

```python
from netCDF4 import Dataset
import numpy as np

# Open netCDF file
data = Dataset('CanalMU-20-04-2023-test5.nc')

# Load hydraulic data
thydro = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Time_Hydro'][:]
Qcons = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Debit_liquide_consigne'][:]
Qins = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Debit_liquide_instant'][:]
Tapis = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Vitesse_tapis_consigne'][:]
h1 = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Hauteur1'][:]
h2 = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Hauteur2'][:]
h3 = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Hauteur3'][:]
h4 = data.groups['Data_Hydro'].variables['Hauteur4'][:]

# Load force data
tforce = data.groups['Data_Force'].variables['Time_Force'][:]
FN = data.groups['Data_Force'].variables['Force_Normale'][:]
FT = data.groups['Data_Force'].variables['Force_Tangentielle'][:]

# Apply calibration factors
FN = FN
FT = FT

# Fetch metadata
slope = data.groups['Data_Annexe'].variables['Channel_slope']
alpha = np.arctan(slope[:]/100)
L = data.groups['Data_Annexe'].variables['Longueur_plaque_impact'][:]
W = data.groups['Data_Annexe'].variables['Largeur_plaque_impact'][:]

```

For more advanced processing, consider using `xarray` which provides easier multi-dimensional data access.

This dataset is a processed data in NetCDF (.nc) files, that used in our study. We used the SPI to determine meteorological drought conditions in the study area, that calculated by using the open-source module Climate and Drought Indices in Python.

Data Summary: US states grid mask file and NOAA climate regions grid mask file, both compatible with the 12US1 modeling grid domain. Note:The datasets are on a Google Drive. The metadata associated with this DOI contain the link to the Google Drive folder and instructions for downloading the data. These files can be used with CMAQ-ISAMv5.3 to track state- or region-specific emissions. See Chapter 11 and Appendix B.4 in the CMAQ User's Guide for further information on how to use the ISAM control file with GRIDMASK files. The files can also be used for state or region-specific scaling of emissions using the CMAQv5.3 DESID module. See the DESID Tutorial and Appendix B.4 in the CMAQ User's Guide for further information on how to use the Emission Control File to scale emissions in predetermined geographical areas. File Location and Download Instructions: Link to GRIDMASK files Link to README text file with information on how these files were created File Format: The grid mask are stored as netcdf formatted files using I/O API data structures (https://www.cmascenter.org/ioapi/). Information on the model projection and grid structure is contained in the header information of the netcdf file. The output files can be opened and manipulated using I/O API utilities (e.g. M3XTRACT, M3WNDW) or other software programs that can read and write netcdf formatted files (e.g. Fortran, R, Python). File descriptions These GRIDMASK files can be used with the 12US1 modeling grid domain (grid origin x = -2556000 m, y = -1728000 m; N columns = 459, N rows = 299). GRIDMASK_STATES_12US1.nc - This file containes 49 variables for the 48 states in the conterminous U.S. plus DC. Each state variable (e.g., AL, AZ, AR, etc.) is a 2D array (299 x 459) providing the fractional area of each grid cell that falls within that state. GRIDMASK_CLIMATE_REGIONS_12US1.nc - This file containes 9 variables for 9 NOAA climate regions based on the Karl and Koss (1984) definition of climate regions. Each climate region variable (e.g., CLIMATE_REGION_1, CLIMATE_REGION_2, etc.) is a 2D array (299 x 459) providing the fractional area of each grid cell that falls within that climate region. NOAA Climate regions: CLIMATE_REGION_1: Northwest (OR, WA, ID) CLIMATE_REGION_2: West (CA, NV) CLIMATE_REGION_3: West North Central (MT, WY, ND, SD, NE) CLIMATE_REGION_4: Southwest (UT, AZ, NM, CO) CLIMATE_REGION_5: South (KS, OK, TX, LA, AR, MS) CLIMATE_REGION_6: Central (MO, IL, IN, KY, TN, OH, WV) CLIMATE_REGION_7: East North Central (MN, IA, WI, MI) CLIMATE_REGION_8: Northeast (MD, DE, NJ, PA, NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, ME) + Washington, D.C.* CLIMATE_REGION_9: Southeast (VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, GA) *Note that Washington, D.C. is not included in any of the climate regions on the website but was included with the “Northeast” region for the generation of this GRIDMASK file.

Part 2 of supplementary material for the Master's Thesis: "Evaluation of AROME Model Valley Wind Simulations in the Inn Valley, Austria" (Wibmer 2024, available here).

Due to memory constraints, the supplementary material consists of two parts:

• Part 1: (available here) Includes Python scripts and model setup files, along with the first part of the datasets, including ERA-reanalysis data, observational data, and the preprocessed AROME model output (NetCDF files) of the 0.5-km simulation.
• Part 2: Includes the preprocessed AROME model output (NetCDF files) of the 1.0-km and 2.5-km simulations (see description below).

To reproduce part of the figures, users must download the Python scripts and the preprocessed AROME model datasets (NetCDF files).
The Python scripts should be placed in the same parent folder because some of them depend on each other (!! Important !!).
Original AROME model output files (GRIB2 format) are not published due to their large size.

The naming convention for the AROME simulations uses OP* (where * represents the grid spacing in meters) to differentiate the model runs based on their horizontal
grid spacing:

• OP2500: for 2.5 km
• OP1000: for 1.0 km
• OP500: for 0.5 km

Datasets Part 2

Due to memory constraints, the datasets needed for the analyses are split up into two parts. The second part of the supplementary material contains:

• datasets_OP1000.tar.xz: Contains the preprocessed AROME-Aut model output data (NetCDF files) of the 1.0-km simulation.
• datasets_OP2500.tar.xz: Contains the preprocessed AROME-Aut model output data (NetCDF files) of the 2.5-km simulation.

The datasets of the 0.5-km simulation (datasets_OP500.tar.xz) can be found in Part 1 of the supplementary material (available here).
The NetCDF datasets of the performed AROME-Aut simulations are packaged and compressed into .tar.xz files.
The Python scripts, available here, require these NetCDF datasets for plotting and analyses routines.
The provided NetCDF datasets are preprocessed from the GRIB2 output of the AROME-Aut simulations.
For the scripts to function properly, you need to adjust the path to the datasets within path_handling.py.

Each datasets_OP*.tar.xz file contains NetCDF files for different type of levels: surface, hybridPressure (model levels), isobaricInhPa (pressure levels), meanSea (mean sea level), heightAboveGround (constant height levels). The following naming convention for the datasets is used:

• ds_OP*_var_hybridPressure_[lon1, lon2, lat1, lat2].nc: Contains data on hybrid pressure model levels for a specific variable (var; e.g., u, v, z, pres, q, t) for the geographical extent defined in the brackets.
• ds_OP*_interp_hybridPressure_(lon,lat).nc: Combined dataset on hybrid pressure model levels. The data is bilinearly interpolated to the specified location (lon, lat).
• ds_OP*_var_surface_whole.nc: Contains data on model surface for a specified variable (var; e.g., z, sp, t, tcc) for the whole available domain extent.
• ds_OP*_heightAboveGround_instant_whole.nc: Combined dataset on height levels (e.g., 2-m and 10-m) for the whole available domain extent.
• ds_OP*_var_meanSea_whole.nc: Contains data on mean sea level for specified variable (var; e.g., prmsl) for the whole available domain extent.

The original GRIB2 files are not provided due to their large size. For further information about the GRIB2 files or the NetCDF datasets, please feel free to contact me.

This data set consisting of initial conditions, boundary conditions and forcing profiles for the Single Column Model (SCM) version of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) model, the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS). The IFS SCM is freely available through the OpenIFS project, on application to ECMWF for a licence. The data were produced and tested for IFS CY40R1, but will be suitable for earlier model cycles, and also for future versions assuming no new boundary fields are required by a later model. The data are archived as single time-stamp maps in netCDF files. If the data are extracted at any lat-lon location and the desired timestamps concatenated (e.g. using netCDF operators), the resultant file is in the correct format for input into the IFS SCM.

The data covers the Tropical Indian Ocean/Warm Pool domain spanning 20S-20N, 42-181E. The data are available every 15 minutes from 6 April 2009 0100 UTC for a period of ten days. The total number of grid points over which an SCM can be run is 480 in the longitudinal direction, and 142 latitudinally. With over 68,000 independent grid points available for evaluation of SCM simulations, robust statistics of bias can be estimated over a wide range of boundary and climatic conditions.

The initial conditions and forcing profiles were derived by coarse-graining high resolution (4 km) simulations produced as part of the NERC Cascade project, dataset ID xfhfc (also available on CEDA). The Cascade dataset is archived once an hour. The dataset was linearly interpolated in time to produce the 15-minute resolution required by the SCM. The resolution of the coarse-grained data corresponds to the IFS T639 reduced gaussian grid (approx 32 km). The boundary conditions are as used in the operational IFS at resolution T639. The coarse graining procedure by which the data were produced is detailed in Christensen, H. M., Dawson, A. and Holloway, C. E., 'Forcing Single Column Models using High-resolution Model Simulations', in review, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES).

For full details of the parent Cascade simulation, see Holloway et al (2012). In brief, the simulations were produced using the limited-area setup of the MetUM version 7.1 (Davies et al, 2005). The model is semi-Lagrangian and non-hydrostatic. Initial conditions were specified from the ECMWF operational analysis. A 12 km parametrised convection run was first produced over a domain 1 degree larger in each direction, with lateral boundary conditions relaxed to the ECMWF operational analysis. The 4 km run was forced using lateral boundary conditions computed from the 12 km parametrised run, via a nudged rim of 8 model grid points. The model has 70 terrain-following hybrid levels in the vertical, with vertical resolution ranging from tens of metres in the boundary layer, to 250 m in the free troposphere, and with model top at 40 km. The time step was 30 s.

The Cascade dataset did not include archived soil variables, though surface sensible and latent heat fluxes were archived. When using the dataset, it is therefore recommended that the IFS land surface scheme be deactivated and the SCM forced using the surface fluxes instead. The first day of Cascade data exhibited evidence of spin-up. It is therefore recommended that the first day be discarded, and the data used from April 7 - April 16.

The software used to produce this dataset are freely available to interested users; 1. "cg-cascade"; NCL software to produce OpenIFS forcing fields from a high-resolution MetUM simulation and necessary ECMWF boundary files. https://github.com/aopp-pred/cg-cascade Furthermore, software to facilitate the use of this dataset are also available, consisting of; 2. "scmtiles"; Python software to deploy many independent SCMs over a domain. https://github.com/aopp-pred/scmtiles 3. "openifs-scmtiles"; Python software to deploy the OpenIFS SCM using scmtiles. https://github.com/aopp-pred/openifs-scmtiles

The netCDF file included here corresponds to datasets used in the Biogeosciences paper entitled "Evaluating the Arabian Sea as a regional source of atmospheric CO2: seasonal variability and drivers" by Alain de Verneil, Zouhair Lachkar, Shafer Smith, and Marina Levy The data included here comprises of model output used in the paper to generate figures in the main manuscript. Many of the figures also contain data from publicly available sources, which is detailed in the "Data availability" section at the end of the paper. The data are in standard netCDF file format, readily readable using netCDF tools (i.e. netCDF4 package in Python, ncread function in Matlab, etc.). Variables names, dimensions, and units are described in the metadata within the netCDF file. Questions regarding this dataset and how it can be used to reproduce the results in the article can be forwarded to Alain de Verneil through email at ajd11@nyu.edu

This dataset contains data collected from 34 successful l University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Mobile Radiosonde launches collected during the SNOWIE field campaign. Each successful launch, named by year-month-day-time-location.nc, has its own netCDF file. The data in each file includes: temperature (Celsius), relative humidity, time of sample (in seconds past launch time), height AGL (m), wind speed (m/s), wind direction (degrees), and pressure (mb) as measured by the radiosonde. The coordinates and altitude above MSL (m) corresponding to where each sounding was launched are written in the attributes of each file. All surface wind speed and direction is used from the previous hourly observation from KBOI for the Boise sites and KEUL for the Caldwell site. One exception was the launch on 16 February 2017 at Caldwell in which KBOI observations were used instead. Included with each dataset order is a python script (netcdfreadout.py) to easily view the netcdf data files.

Are made available:

-the Fortran source code of the model initialization module modified for this simulation work,
"module_initialize_Titan_lakebreeze3d_xy_shoreline.F"

-the input files used to run the simulations,
in "inputs/"

-a list of the simulations done and the netCDF outputs,
"simus_done_for_paper3D.pdf"
"run-##_y0_tsol4.nc.gz" --> slices at a given y (at the center), 4th tsol [for 2D and 3D simulations]
"run-##_y0_tsol3.nc.gz" --> slices at a given y (at the center), 3rd tsol [for 2D and 3D simulations]
"run-##_z0_tsol4.nc.gz" --> slices at a given z (at the surface), 4th tsol [only for 3D simulations]
"run-##_z200_tsol4.nc.gz" --> slices at a given z (at ~200 m), 4th tsol [only for 3D simulations]
"run-##_tsol4_2am.nc.gz" --> total simulation output at a given time (2am on 4th tsol) [only for 3D simulations]
"run-##_tsol4_2pm.nc.gz" --> total simulation output at a given time (2pm on 4th tsol) [only for 3D simulations]

-the Python codes to plot figures from the netCDF output files,
in "postprocessing_python/"
"mtwrf_analysis_1D_t.py" --> plot variables with time at given (x,y,z) [for 2D and 3D simulations]
"mtwrf_analysis_2D_xt.py" --> plot variables with (x,t) at given (y,z) [for 2D and 3D simulations]
"mtwrf_analysis_2D_xz.py" --> plot variables with (x,z) at given (y,t) [for 2D and 3D simulations]
"mtwrf_analysis_2D_xy.py" --> plot variables with (x,y) at given (z,t) [only for 3D simulations]
-- same as the previous ones but to plot along a different x-axis (rotated fron the one of the netCDF files) [only for 3D simulations]
"mtwrf_analysis_1D_t_diagonal.py"
"mtwrf_analysis_2D_xt_diagonal.py"
"mtwrf_analysis_2D_xz_diagonal.py"

-the Matlab variables and figures from the analysis of the simulated lake breeze dimensions
in "postprocessing_matlab/"

this dataset presents fisheries acoustic data in both proprietary simrad raw format and international hac format recorded onboard r/v thalassa on 28/04/2013 between 14:56 and 15:16 gmt near the continental shelf edge in southern bay of biscay. data include typical small pelagic fish schools composed of anchovy and sardine encountered in springtime in this area.the dataset has also been converted to international sonar-netcdf4 format described at : https://github.com/ices-publications/sonar-netcdf4hac files can be displayed and processed using e.g. the movies3d freeware provided by ifremer at: http://flotte.ifremer.fr/fleet/presentation-of-the-fleet/logiciels-embarques/moviessonar-netcdf4 files can be displayed using standard netcdf viewers and python notebooks available at : https://gitlab.ifremer.fr/fleet/formats/pysonar-netcdf

This data release contains a netCDF file containing decadal estimates of nitrate leached from septic systems (kilograms per hectare per year, or kg/ha) in the state of Wisconsin from 1850 to 2010, as well as the python code and supporting files used to create the netCDF file. The netCDF file is used as an input to a Nitrate Decision Support Tool for the State of Wisconsin (GW-NDST; Juckem and others, 2024). The dataset was constructed starting with 1990 census records, which included responses about households using septic systems for waste disposal. The fraction of population using septic systems in 1990 was aggregated at the county scale and applied backward in time for each decade from 1850 to 1980. For decades from 1990 to 2010, the fraction of population using septic systems was computed on the finer resolution census block-group scale. Each decadal estimate of the fraction of population using septic systems was then multiplied by 4.13 kilograms per person per year of leached nitrate to estimate the per-area load of nitrate below the root zone. The data release includes a python notebook used to process the input datasets included in the data release, shapefiles created (or modified) using the python notebook, and the final netCDF file.

These datasets are from tidal resource characterization measurements collected on the Terrasond High Energy Oceanographic Mooring (THEOM) from 1 July 2021 to 30 August 2021 (60 days) in Cook Inlet, Alaska. The lander was deployed at 60.7207031 N, 151.4294998 W in ~50 m of water. The dataset contains raw and processed data from the following two instruments: A Nortek Signature 500 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP). Data were recorded in 4 Hz in the beam coordinate system from all 5 beams. Processed data has been averaged into 5 minutes bins and converted to the East-North-Up (ENU) coordinate system. A Nortek Vector acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV). Data were recorded at 8 Hz in the beam coordinate system. Processed data has been averaged into 5 minutes bins and converted to the Streamwise - Cross-stream - Vertical (Principal) coordinate system. Turbulence statistics were calculated from 5-minute bins, with an FFT length equal to the bin length, and saved in the processed dataset. Data was read and analyzed using the DOLfYN (version 1.0.2) python package and saved in MATLAB (.mat) and netCDF (.nc) file formats. Files containing analyzed data (".b1") were standardized using the TSDAT (version 0.4.2) python package. NetCDF files can be opened using DOLfYN (e.g., dat = dolfyn.load(''*.nc")) or the xarray python package (e.g. `dat = xarray.open_dataset("*.nc"). All distances are in meters (e.g., depth, range, etc), and all velocities in m/s. See the DOLfYN documentation linked in the submission, and/or the Nortek documentation for additional details.

This dataset contains the python scripts and NetCDF data for the analyses and to recreate the figures of the manuscript: "Historical shifts in seasonality and timing of extreme precipitation" by Gaby Gründemann, Enrico Zorzetto, Nick van de Giesen, and Ruud van der Ent

This database consists of a high-resolution village-level drought dataset for major Indian states for the past 43 years (1981 – 2022) for each month. It was created by utilising the CHIRPS precipitation and GLEAM evapotranspiration datasets. GLEAMS dataset based on the well recognised Priestley-Taylor equation to estimate potential evapotranspiration (PET) based on observations of surface net radiation and near-surface air temperature. The SPEI was calculated for spatial grids of 5x5 km for the SPEI 3-month time scale, suitable for agricultural drought monitoring.
This high-resolution SPEI dataset was integrated with Indian village boundaries and associated census attribute dataset. This allows researchers to perform multi-disciplinary investigations, e.g., climate migration modelling, drought hazards, and exposure assessment. The development of the dataset has been performed while keeping potential users in mind. Therefore, the dataset can be integrated into a GIS system for visualization (using .mid/.mif format) and into Python programming for modelling and analysis (using .csv). For advanced analysis, I have also provided it in netCDF format, which can be read in Python using xarray or the netcdf4 library. More details are in the README.pdf file.