DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4452080
title: Northern Hemisphere Lamb Weather Types from historical GCM experiments and various reanalyses

description: This dataset contains 6-hourly instantaneous discrete Lamb circulation type time series (Lamb 1972) on a 2.5 degrees longitude-latitude grid covering the northern hemisphere extratropics between 30ºN and 70ºN for the period 1979-2005 or longer. These "Lamb catalogues" were calculated upon SLP data from the historical experiments run with 61 distinct GCMs participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phases 5 and 6, and also from three distinct reanalyses (ERA5 extended to 2020 from version 5 onwards, ERA-Interim and JRA-55). For 13 out of the aforementioned 61 GCMs, 72 additional runs are provided to explore the role of internal model variability. For more information, please refer to the following article:

Brands, S.: A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes, Geosci. Model Dev., 15, 1375–1411, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1375-2022, 2022.

or contact: brandssf@ifca.unican.es

Reference: Lamb, H.: British Isles Weather types and a register of daily sequence of circulation patterns, 1861-1971, Geophysical Memoir, 116, 85pp., HMSO, 1972.

CAUTION: When unpacked, this dataset occupies 110 GB of your local disk space.

Update information:

Version 2 of this archive includes the model_source_attributes.txt file containing the "source" attributes stored in the netCDF files obtained from ESGF. This attribute provides details about the individual component models within the coupled model configurations used in CMIP5 and 6.

Version 3 of this archive includes 10 new GCMs, two additional runs for CNRM-CM6-1 and an updated version of model_source_attributes.txt

Version 3.1 includes README.txt, which explains the content of the files located in the tar.gz file.

Version 4 further includes Lamb Weather Type catalogues for the ERA5 reanalysis and 4 additional GCMs. All files have been compressed individually.  The <model_source_attributes.txt> file is depreciated and no longer updated. It is replaced by the Python function <get_historical_metadata.py> available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4555367. This function contains an exhaustive metadata archive of the 60 GCMs considered here.

Version 4.1 The LWT catalogue for CMCC-CM2-HR4 is included for consistency with the respective Southern Hemisphere dataset published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7612987

Version 5 is a major dataset update featuring the following improvements:

1. The attributes from the netCDF source files "psl...nc" obtained from ESGF were copied into the files available here. These attributes are indicated with the prefix "udata...." (for "underlying data").

2. All non-standard calenders from the underlying netCDF files from ESGF were converted into standard using the "xarray.Dataset.convert_calendar" function. The original calendar information was stored as additional netCDF attribute.

3. The "patch" method from Python's xesmf module was used to regrid the original psl data from the native GCM grid available from ESGF to the regular lat-lon 2.5° grid common to all applied GCMs and reanalyses.

contact: Swen Brands, brandssf@ifca.unican.es

 

Principal Research Articles, Software and Complementary Datasets Associated with this Dataset

Brands, S. (2022). A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and6 models for regional climate studies in the Northern Hemisphere mid-to-high latitudes. Geoscientific Model Development, 15 (4), 1375–1411.doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1375-2022

Brands, S. (2022). A circulation-based performance atlas of the CMIP5 and 6 mod-els for regional climate studies in the northern hemisphere [data set]. Zenodo.doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4452080

Brands, S. (2022). Common error patterns in the regional atmospheric circulationsimulated by the CMIP multi-model ensemble. Geophysical Research Letters,49 (23), e2022GL101446. doi: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL101446

Brands, Swen, Tatebe, Hiroaki, Danek, Christopher, Fernández, Jesús, Swart, Neil C., Volodin, Evgeny, Kim, YoungHo, Collier, Mark, Bi, Dave, & Tongwen, Wu. (2022). Python code to calculate Lamb circulation types derived from historical CMIP simulations and reanalysis data. In Geoscientific Model Development: Vols. gmd-2020-418 (Version 4). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6390256

Brands, S., Fernández-Granja, J. A., Bedia, J., Casanueva, A., & Fernández,J. (2023). Auxiliary online material to Brands et al. (2023): A globalclimate model performance atlas for the Southern Hemisphere extratrop-ics based on regional atmospheric circulation patterns. figshare. doi:https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22193443.v1

Brands, S., Fernández-Granja, J. A., Bedia, J., Casanueva, A., & Fernández,J. (2023b). Southern Hemisphere Lamb Weather Types from historicalGCM experiments and various reanalyses (1.0) [data set]. Zenodo. doi:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7612988

Brands, S., Tatebe, H., Danek, C., Fernández, J., Swart, N., Volodin, E., . . . Tong-wen, W. (2023). GCM metadata archive get historical metadata.py (v1.1).Zenodo. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7715383

Fernández-Granja, J. A., Brands, S., Bedia, J., Casanueva, A., & Fernández, J.(2023). Exploring the limits of the Jenkinson–Collison weather types clas-sification scheme: a global assessment based on various reanalyses.Climate Dynamics. doi: 10.1007/s00382-022-06658-7

 

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description: The underlying Python code for this dataset is provided in the separate Zenodo entry:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4555367