Whole Atmosphere Climate Change: Dependence on Solar Activity

The netCDF files are global gridded monthly monthly mean "h0" files output by the NCAR WACCM-X model. The "SMIN" or "SMAX" in the file name designates perpetual solar minimum or perpetual solar maximum conditions, respectively. The date string at the end file name designates the year and month, e.g., 1972-01 is January 1972. The metadata in the individual netCDF files describes the individual parameters and locations. The spatial resolution is 1.9 x 2.5 degrees latitude/longitude.

Note that these are "free-running" climate simulations, and so are not representative of atmospheric weather on any particular date. Rather, the nominal date of the simulation indicates that the lower boundary conditions of CO2, CH4, CFC, sea-surface temperatures, etc., for that date, were employed. Similarly, constant "solar minimum" or constant "solar maximum" upper boundary conditions were used for each five-year run, instead of time-varying conditions. See publication for further details.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1972-01-01
    End:  2005-12-31

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1972-01-01
Temporal Range End 2005-12-31
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 0.00 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Solomon, Stanley C.
Liu, Han-Li
Marsh, Daniel R.
McInerney, Joseph M.
Qian, Liying
Vitt, Francis M.
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2025-06-20
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26024/ypnz-d857
Alternate Identifier d583109
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-06-20T23:05:02Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d583109
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Solomon, Stanley C., Liu, Han-Li, Marsh, Daniel R., McInerney, Joseph M., Qian, Liying, Vitt, Francis M.. (2025). Whole Atmosphere Climate Change: Dependence on Solar Activity. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26024/ypnz-d857. Accessed 21 June 2025.

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