Dataset for "entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud"
Description
This dataset accompanies the paper Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary cumulus cloud (2025). Jingzi Huang, Henry C. Burridge, Stephan de Roode and Maarten van Reeuwijk Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1002/qj.4920 Please reference the paper and the dataset if you make use of this data. # ------------------------------------------------- # The main directory contains the following files and folders: loaddata.m: loads the simulation data. plotdata.m: plots the figures in the paper. functions: a folder with auxiliary MATLAB functions. figures: a folder containing all the figure files in the paper data: a folder containing the raw simulation data Data folder ----------- Instantaneous data (x,z,t): b.mat: buoyancy field ql.mat: liquid water specific humidity field w.mat: vertical velocity field t.mat: time instantaneous cloud-averaged data (z,t): bint.mat: cloud-averaged buoyancy wint.mat: cloud-averaged vertical velocity qlint.mat: cloud-averaged liquid water specific humidity Aint.mat: cloud area Reynolds-averaged data (r,z): bav.mat: buoyancy field pav.mat: pressure field qlav.mat: liquid water specific humidity field uav.mat: radial velocity field wav.mat: vertical velocity field r_cld.mat: cloud boundary r_co: updraft boundary conditional data (z,t): t_con.mat: sampling time for conditional data cldfld.txt: for entire cloud, already loaded as cldfld.mat cldupfld.txt: for updraft, already loaded as cldupfld.mat environmental data file (z): env_values.txt: environmental values simulation parameters for spbase: plume_dA.nc.620: plume statistics simparams_620: parameters file
Related publications
- Entrainment and detrainment statistics of a stationary shallow cumulus cloud · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2025