Heinzeller, D., Junkermann, W., Kunstmann, H.: Anthropogenic aerosol emissions and rainfall decline in South-West Australia: coincidence or causality? Submitted to Journal of Climate, 2016 Last update: 2016/04/24 Contents: WRF - contains namelists to set up the WRF model as in the publication; additionally: (1) Python scripts to generate the default aerosol profile for South-West Australia and the reference profiles for U.S. / from the climatology; (2) Python script to generate the eta levels used in the WRF model, with additional information on approximate height of levels grid - grid information as text files for the 30km, 10km and 3.3km runs; can be used with CDO to regrid the WRF model output to the grid used in the following zip archives bom - monthly rainfall observations of the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) stations in South-West Australia, including metadata All other directories - WRF model output remapped to the WA domain using the grid files in grid for the different model runs if not noted differently (see below), variable names as in WRF. aclwdnb - accumulated long wave radiation down at surface [J m-2] aclwdnt - accumulated long wave radiation down at top of atmosphere [J m-2] aclwupb - accumulated long wave radiation up at surface [J m-2] aclwupt - accumulated long wave radiation up at top of atmosphere [J m-2] acswdnb - accumulated short wave radiation down at surface [J m-2] acswdnt - accumulated short wave radiation down at top of atmosphere [J m-2] acswupb - accumulated short wave radiation up at surface [J m-2] acswupt - accumulated short wave radiation up at top of atmosphere [J m-2] cld - total cloud fraction [1] ght - geopotential height at top of atmosphere [m] landuse - landuse classification [1] for the 3.3km model runs lsm - land-sea mask [0/1] mu - dry air mass in column [Pa] pblh - planetary boundary layer height [m] psfc - surface pressure [Pa] qcloud - cloud water mixing ratio [kg kg-1] qice - ice mixing ratio [kg kg-1] qnice - ice number concentration [kg-1] qnifa - number concentration of ice-friendly aerosols [kg-1] qnrain - rain number concentration [kg-1] qnwfa - number concentration of water-friendly aerosols [kg-1] qrain - rain water mixing ratio [kg kg-1] qvapor - water vapour mixing ratio [kg kg-1] rainnc - accumulated total precipitation [mm] rhsfc - relative humidity at surface [%] terrain - terrain height [m] for the 3.3km model runs tsfc - air temperature at surface [K] usfc - zonal wind at surface [m/s] vsfc - meridional wind at surface [m/s] Names of model runs: wrf_wa-ndown1 = wrf-30km wrf_wa-ndown1 = wrf-10km wrf_wa-std = wrf-std wrf_wa-aero = wrf-aero wrf_wa-aerox3 = wrf-aerox3 wrf_wa-muja = wrf-muja For questions, please contact heinzeller@kit.edu