This confluence page provides a data catalogue for the SUMMIT 1.4 km NDJF seasonal run performed on the Oak Ridge supercomputer, which serves as a prototype dataset for the Destination Earth project.

Temporal resolution

The output is at 3 hourly resolution. For the purposes of this sample, steps [0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27] have been made available. The run start date and time is 2018-11-01, 00:00:00.

More model steps and output variables will be made available in due course.

Spatial resolution

The output is provided on one of two types of horizontal grid, both of which correspond to approximately 1.4 km horizontal resolution:

The grid type for each group of parameters is specified below.

Data on spherical harmonics cannot be compressed and has a significantly larger file size per field than data on the octahedral grid (around 120MiB compared with around 16MiB).


Please note that the prototype is not yet optimised for serving such high resolution data.
Thus, retrieving data for all model/pressure levels for a parameter on spherical harmonics will lead to a very large file and long wait times (several hours).
Please only retrieve a subset of model/pressure levels for this data for improved retrieval times.

To mirror the output resolution of the HRES and retrieve data at TCO1279, O1280 or 0.1° x 0.1° lat/long grid, the data on the TCO7999 grid can be truncated and/or regridded. This is achieved using the following keywords:

This will improve the download time of the spectral data but reduce the resolution of the data.

Please note that data on the O8000 grid cannot currently be regridded and will cause the retrieval to fail.
This is because the size of the interpolation matrices for gridded data becomes too large. A parallel interpolation system is currently in development to deal with this high resolution data.


Output fields

Surface fields

The parameters at surface level are provided on the O8000 grid and are as follows:

paramIdshortNameNameunits
31ciSea ice area fraction(0 - 1)
33rsnSnow densitykg m**-3
34sstSea surface temperatureK
47dsrpDirect solar radiationJ m**-2
78tclwTotal column cloud liquid waterkg m**-2
79tciwTotal column cloud ice waterkg m**-2
129zGeopotentialm**2 s**-2
136tcwTotal column waterkg m**-2
137tcwvTotal column vertically-integrated water vapourkg m**-2
145bldBoundary layer dissipationJ m**-2
146sshfSurface sensible heat fluxJ m**-2
147slhfSurface latent heat fluxJ m**-2
151mslMean sea level pressurePa
172lsmLand-sea mask(0 - 1)
180ewssEastward turbulent surface stressN m**-2 s
181nsssNorthward turbulent surface stressN m**-2 s
189sundSunshine durations
235sktSkin temperatureK
238tsnTemperature of snow layerK
3020visVisibilitym
260015ptypePrecipitation typecode table (4.201)
260052lssrweLarge scale snowfall rate water equivalentkg m**-2 s**-1
260121kxK indexK
260123totalxTotal totals indexK

Model level fields

The parameters on model levels (1 to 137; with model level 137 representing the lowest height), on the O8000 grid are as follows:

paramIdshortNameNameunits
75crwcSpecific rain water contentkg kg**-1
76cswcSpecific snow water contentkg kg**-1
133qSpecific humiditykg kg**-1
246clwcSpecific cloud liquid water contentkg kg**-1
247ciwcSpecific cloud ice water contentkg kg**-1
248ccFraction of cloud cover(0 - 1)

The parameters on model levels (1 to 137; with model level 137 representing the lowest height), on the TCO7999 grid are as follows:

paramIdshortNameNameunits
54presPressurePa
77etadotEta-coordinate vertical velocitys**-1
129zGeopotentialm**2 s**-2
130tTemperatureK
138voVorticity (relative)s**-1
152lnspLogarithm of surface pressure~
155dDivergences**-1
260238wzGeometric vertical velocitym s**-1

Pressure level fields

The parameters on pressure levels (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 700, 850, 925, 1000), on the O8000 grid are as follows:

paramIdshortNameNameunits
60pvPotential vorticityK m**2 kg**-1 s**-1
133qSpecific humiditykg kg**-1

The parameters on pressure levels (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 700, 850, 925, 1000), on the TCO7999 grid are as follows:

paramIdshortNameNameunits
129zGeopotentialm**2 s**-2
130tTemperatureK
135wVertical velocityPa s**-1
138voVorticity (relative)s**-1
155dDivergences**-1
157rRelative humidity%
260238wzGeometric vertical velocitym s**-1