Influence of Ocean Surface Conditions on the Regional Climate of the Northernmost Atlantic, 1988-2004

This data set includes simulations data of the Greenland region created with the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Fifth-Generation Mesoscale Model (MM5) modified for use in polar regions (Polar MM5) using European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) initial boundary conditions. The regional climate model demonstrates regional patterns for the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance (SMB) change over a 17-year period (1988-2004) characterized by warming. The Polar MM5 is reinitialized once a day at the surface and continuously updated every 12 hours at the lateral boundaries with the 2.5 degree horizontal resolution ECMWF operational analyses. The 6-hourly data are averaged to produce monthly means for 2-m temperature (C), 2-m specific humidity (g/kg), zonal wind at 10 m (m/s) , meridional wind at 10 m (m/s), wind speed at 10 m (m/s), and precipitation (monthly total in mm). Data have a 24 km spatial resolution and are based on the Polar Stereographic grid projection. Data are in 2-byte binary format.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2004-12-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2004-12-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 83.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 59.00000
Bounding Box West Long -72.00000
Bounding Box East Long -12.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Asset Size 47 MB
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Author David H. Bromwich
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Publication Date 2008-07-07T13:38:30
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.ARCSS159
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:02:06Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.ARCSS159
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation David H. Bromwich. (2008). Influence of Ocean Surface Conditions on the Regional Climate of the Northernmost Atlantic, 1988-2004. 1.0. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.ARCSS159. Accessed 05 August 2025.

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