Timeseries data at raw temporal output from WRF LES
latest update by James Pinto: 9 Feb 2021

Files stored in each tar file contain timeseries in ascii format for select grid points in the San Luis Valley of Colorado 
during the 14-19 July 2018 LAPSE RATE field experiment. Output in ascii format and is stored at the model domain time step 
resolution, which is 6 sec for D01 (1 km grid spacing) and 0.667 sec for d02 (111.11 m grid spacing) for 0400 UTC runs. 
The locations for which timeseries data were stored are as follows:

*LAE - grid point closest to Leach Airfield where UAS intercomparisons and many other flights and instrumentation including CU MURC were deployed
MOF - grid point closest to Moffat Elementary School where CLAMPS/CU Doppler Lidar and OU UAS were flown.
SAG - grid point closest to Saguache Airport where CU Doppler Lidar and UKY and CU UAS were flown.

tar files yyyymmddhh.tar include a number of ascii files as described below for each forecast issued at yyyymmddhh
where yyyy = year, mm = month, dd = day and hh = hour in UTC.

use tar xvf yyyymmddhh.tar to extract individual files.


See the README.tslist file for a complete description of the contents of each file.


Data files are stored using the following naming convention and have been gzipped:
XXX.dNN.??.YYYYMMDDHH.gz 

where:

XXX - is the 3 character point ID (LAE, SAG or MOF)
NN - domain ID (01,02 for all runs initialized at 04 utc and 02,03 for all run initialized at 18 utc)
?? - variable ID 
	PH - geopotential hgt, 
	QV - water vapor m.r., 
	TH - potential temperature, 
	TS- timeseries fo sfc vars, 
	UU - u-wind comp., 
	VV - v-wind comp,
	WW - w-wind comp,
       *TK - subgrid scale (un resolved) turbulent kinetic energy from WRF-LES grid
       *EP - Epsilon eddy dissipation (sub-grid scale eddy dissipation rate) from WRF-LES grid
       *TP - TKE from MYNN PBL scheme (1 km grid)
       *EL - PBL mixing length from MYNN PBL scheme (1 km grid)

YYYYMMDDHH - gives the initialization date and time of the outermost domain in UTC. The innermost LES mesh was always initialized at 10:00 UTC
This turns out to be at a lead time of 16 hours for the 18:00 UTC runs and 6 hours for the 04:00 UTC runs.

*Note that files with asterisk are only available for the 04 UTC runs.
	
Dataset is described in detail in:

Pinto, J. O., Jensen, A. A., Jiménez, P. A., Hertneky, T., Muñoz-Esparza, D., Dumont, A., and Steiner, M., 2021: Realtime WRF LES 
Simulations to Support UAS Flight Planning and Operations During 2018 LAPSE-RATE, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss,
 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-242, in press.

Contact James Pinto (pinto@ucar.edu) with any questions