Atmospheric Profile Datasets and Profile Manipulation Tools
by Leanne Avila — last modified Jun 03, 2015 02:48 AM
Atmospheric profile datasets
Model-derived and observation-based datasets
Dataset | # profiles | # levels | Pmin | variables | data source | Contact/download |
TIGR v3 | 2311 | 40 | ? | P,T,q (O3 climatology) | radiosonde | LMD website |
ECMWF 50L | 13766 | 50 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,q (O3 climatology) | model | ECMWF |
ECMWF 60L | 13495 | 60 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,q,O3 (+cloud/surface) | model | Eumetsat NWP SAF website |
NOAA-88/89 | ~8000 | 66,101 | 0.005, 1 hPa | P,T,q | rocket/radiosonde | Chris Barnet, NOAA |
SeeBor V4.0 | 15705 | 101 | 0.005 hPa | P,T,q,O3 | mixed | SeeBor website |
UMBC | 49 | 101 | 0.005 hPa | P,T,q,O3,CO,CH4,N2O | radiosonde/? | Scott Hannon, UMBC [download dataset] |
Garand | 42 | 43 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,q,O3,CO2,CO,CH4,N2O | radiosonde/SAGE | Louis Garand, MSC [download dataset] |
CIMSS Ozone | 380 | 40 | ? | O3 | ozonesonde | Hal Woolf, CIMSS |
ECMWF trace gas | 43 | 90 | 0.005 hPa | CO2,CO,CH4,N2O | mixed | Marco Matricardi, ECMWF [download data] |
MOZART trace gas | 98304 | 67 | 0.005 hPa | O3,CO,CH4,N2O | model | Xu Liu, NASA |
COSPAR | 396 | 71 | 2.54e-05 hPa | T,wind | mixed | BADC website |
ECMWF aerosol and trace gas concentrations | 40000 | 60 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,q,O3,CO2,CH4 Aerosol mixing ratios of sulphate, organic matter, black carbon, sea salt, and desert dust | model | EUMETSAT NWP SAF website: 60L datasets from the MACC project\\ |
ECMWF 91L | 25000 | 91 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,Q,O3,cloud,surface | model | EUMETSAT NWP SAF website |
ECMWF 137L | 25000 | 137 | 0.1 hPa | P,T,q,O3,cloud,surface | model | EUMETSAT NWP SAF website |
- The DARDAR dataset of vertical profiles of visible extinction coefficient, ice water content and effective radius in ice clouds is available from the ICARE web site.
Summary of profile subsets used to date in fast RT model development
Parent dataset | # profiles | # levels | Derived models/usage | Contact/download |
TIGR v2 | 43 | 43,90 | RTTOV,RTIASI,RTAIRS | Marco Matricardi, ECMWF |
ECMWF trace gas | 43 | 90 | RTIASI,RTAIRS | Marco Matricardi, ECMWF [download dataset] |
NOAA-88 | 32 | 40,42,101 | PFAAST, ? | Hal Woolf, CIMSS |
UMBC | 49 | 101 | SARTA,AIRS-RTA,Gastropod | Scott Hannon, UMBC [download dataset] |
ECMWF 50L | 117 | 43 | Model validation | Eumetsat NWP SAF website |
Garand | 42 | 43 | Garand RT model intercomparison | Louis Garand, MSC [download dataset] |
ECMWF 60L | 52 | 101 | AIRS RT model intercomparison | Eumetsat NWP SAF website |
ECMWF 101L | 83 | 101 | RTTOV | Marco Matricardi, ECMWF |
Observational validation datasets
Refer to the group's validation datasets web page.
Profile manipulation tools
- f90 code to map profiles from the AIRS 101 pressure levels to arbitrary fast model pressure levels, provided by Roger Saunders for the AIRS RT model intercomparison
- Documentation and code for vertical interpolation of profiles and associated Jacobians, provided
by Yves Rochon (English version, French version)
- Profile utility software tarball containing Fortran95 code and documentation to perform units conversions and level-to-layer conversions on atmospheric quantities. The units conversion and atmospheric properties module contain the forward, as well as tangent-linear and adjoint procedures.