Analysis of Climate Extermes
From @stepanek
- Daily output of the following atmosphere variables may be valuable/necessary towards analysis of climate extremes, so these could go with daily output frequency in a dedicated climate-extremes namelist:
- 3D variables (to be provided as a minimum at pressure levels of 850 hPa, 500 hPa, and 200 hPa (the more levels, the better))
- wind (u,v)
- T (for analysis of potential velocity)
- q for computation of water vapour transport
- geopoth (to diagnose large scale circulation; for blocking index, 6 hourly resolution necessary!!!)
- 2D variables (based on commonly used climate indices, see dedicated CDO manual and ICDC website)
- precip (as daily precipitation amount, conversion from rates to be done in postprocessing - necessary for various heat related indices)
- aps (Needed? Or is sea level pressure only sufficient?)
- slp (SAM, NAO - aren't monthly means sufficient for this?)
- temp2 (daily mean temperature - necessary for various heat related indices)
- t2max (daily maximum temperature - necessary for various heat related indices)
- t2min (daily minimum temperature - necessary for various heat related indices)
- qvi (vertically integrated specific humidity - diagnostic for moisture budget?)
- 3D variables (to be provided as a minimum at pressure levels of 850 hPa, 500 hPa, and 200 hPa (the more levels, the better))
- Daily output of the following ocean variable may be valuable/necessary towards analysis of climate extremes
- SST (NAO, ENSO, PDO, IOD - aren't monthly means sufficient for this?)