Please cite as:
Chen, Ru; McClean, Julie L.; Gille, Sarah T.; Yulaeva, Elena; Ivanova, Detelina P.; Cerovečki, Ivana (2021). Data from: Effect of atmospheric forcing resolution on simulated mixed layer depth in the North Pacific. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. https://doi.org/10.6075/J09P3008

Description of contents:

NPRC: North Pacific Regional Configuration (NPRC)

Uses the Community Climate System Model4 (CCSM4): https://www2.cesm.ucar.edu/models/ccsm4.0/ 

Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) atmospheric surface fields are used to force the active ocean model: 0.1-deg Parallel Ocean Program (POP)

WRF model output was postprocessed to be in a form that can be ingested into CCSM4. 

WRF forcing files are:
Unsmoothed: wrfpost_2000.nc
Smoothed WRF forcing: wrfpost_filtered.nc

Case "NPRC_WRF06_hb3"
Daily snapshots at midnight for 2000-2002
Each component file contains three months of daily fields e.g., NPRC_WRF06_hb3.pop.hm.[yyyy-mm-dd].nc

Case "NPRC_WRF06_sm4"
Daily snapshots at midnight for 2000-2002
Each component file contains three months of daily fields e.g., NPRC_WRF06_sm4.pop.hm.[yyyy-mm-dd].nc

Ocean model (POP) grid information:
NPRC_WRF06_sm4.pop.h.2001-01.nc
Note: ignore the variables: QSW_HBL and onwards.  
Read the grid variables in double precision when they are double precision in this file. 

License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License