Identification

Title

Hourly WRF-Chem simulation with SMAP soil moisture insertion over the Contiguous U.S. for the period 2015 - 2019

Alternative title(s)

d010047

Abstract

<p>Continuous multi year WRF-Chem simulation (2015 - 2019) over the contiguous U.S. at 9 km grid spacing. Initial and boundary conditions are from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). Aerosol processes are represented with the Goddard Chemistry Aerosol Radiation and Transport (GOCART) model. Atmospheric chemistry is not explicitly resolved. We use gas climatologies to produce sulfate aerosols. Aerosol emissions from fires are represented with the Fire Inventory from NCAR (FINN) version 2.5 whereas anthropogenic emissions are based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency National Emissions Inventory (NEI). Sea salt emissions are accounted for by the GOCART emissions. The mineral dust emissions use the GOCART model with the Air Force Weather Agency extensions (GOCART-AFWA). Soil moisture retrievals from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission were inserted every 12 hours starting on April 1 2015.</p>

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010047/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010047/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

WRF-Chem > Weather Research and Forecasting Model Coupled to Chemistry

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > AEROSOLS > SULFATE PARTICLES

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015

End position

2019

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2024-10-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-09T01:30:05Z

Metadata language