DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7758773
title: Data files for the Kinematic Driver-Aerosol intercomparison

description: The Kinematic Driver-Aerosol (KiD-A) intercomparison was established to test the hypothesis that detailed warm microphysical schemes provide a benchmark for lower-complexity bulk microphysics schemes. KiD-A is the first intercomparison to compare multiple Lagrangian cloud models (LCMs), size bin-resolved schemes, and double-moment bulk microphysics schemes in a consistent 1D dynamic framework and box cases. The motivation and description of intercomparison, along with overview of the schemes included and the intercomparison results are presented in Hill et al (2023). Here we provide details of the raw data that was produced during the intercomparison by participants and used to generate the results and plots that are discussed in Hill et al (2023). The data for the intercomparison are provided in the kid-a_0d_1d_final_submission.tar.gz. To access the data, untar and unzip the file using <pre><code class="language-bash">$ tar -xzvf kid-a_0d_1d_final_submission.tar.gz</code></pre> Once untarred and unzipped, the following directory structure is available kid-a_pub/kida_0d_data contains all the data for the 0-D box simulations kid-a_pub/kida_1d_data contains all the data for the 1-D column simulations Within kida_0d_data and kida_1d_data, there are further directories, which are specific to each submission. Tables 1 and 2 define the directories for each submission, with model names that relate to the model naming in Hill et al. (2023), and a full description of the model types can be found in Hill et al. (2023). The specific directories for each model contain NetCDF output from the KiD model. In addition, some participants also included namelists that were used to run KiD and produce the output. Where this was submitted, these namelist files are also included. Table 1: Scheme names as defined in Hill et al. (2023), scheme type, and 1-D column model data directory (kida 1d data) Model Description 1-D data directory LCM-FH Lagrangian microphysics hoffman_1d_ensemble LCM-MA Lagrangian microphysics mirek_lm_1d UWLCM Lagrangian microphysics piotr_uw_lcm bin2d Eulerian bin scheme lebo_bin2d_solute_tests TAU-bin Eulerian bin scheme hill_kida_taubin_results_v2 MSSG-bin Eulerian bin scheme onishi_mssg_1d_v2 MG2 Two-moment bulk scheme mg2_4th_sub CASIM (cond/evap) Two-moment bulk scheme hill_1D_CE_casim_result CASIM (precip) Two-moment bulk scheme hill_1D_casim_v0.5 LIMA Two-moment bulk scheme vie_lima_bulk_kida_results LIMA-KK Two-moment bulk scheme vie_limakk_bulk_kida_results Table 2: Scheme names as defined in Hill et al. (2023), scheme type, and 0-D box model data directory (kida 0d data). Model Description 0-D data directory LCM-FH (cond) Lagrangian microphysics hoffman_kida_results/box_cond LCM-FH (coll) Lagrangian microphysics hoffman_kida_results/box_coll LCM-MA (cond) Lagrangian microphysics mirek_lm_0d/ZERO-D_v1.0/CE LCM-MA (coll) Lagrangian microphysics mirek_lm_0d/ZERO-D_v1.0/CO UWLCM (coll) Lagrangian microphysics piotr_lm_0d bin2d (cond) Eulerian bin scheme lebo_bin2d/cond bin2d (coll) Eulerian bin scheme lebo_bin2d/coll TAU-bin (cond) Eulerian bin scheme hill_kida_taubin_result/cond TAU-bin (coll) Eulerian bin scheme hill_kida_taubin_result/coll Hill, A. A., Lebo, Z. J., Andrejczuk, M., Arabas, S., Dziekan, P., Field, P., Gettelman, A., Hoffmann, F., Pawlowska, H., Onishi, R., & Vi ́e, B. (2023). Toward a Numerical Benchmark for Warm Rain Processes, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (published online ahead of print 2023). doi:https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0275.1