MOSAiC Model Forcing Datasets

This is the public repository of the MOSAiC Model Forcing Datasets Working Group (MMFD). The overall objective of the MMFD is to foster research based on MOSAiC observations¹ and facilitate the comparison and reproducibility of results from different projects². This requires sharing the initialization, forcing, and validation merged datasets used to drive various models. The purpose of this repository is to publish the code 'recipes' for generating these merged datasets. This public repository is the companion to a private repository in which the development of these recipes occurs.

If you would like to contribute to this effort, please contact: dcsewall [at] ucar [dot] edu.

Ways to contribute

Your contribution to MMFD could be:

• A new forcing dataset for single column models (or large eddy simulations);
• A presentation, documentation or new paper on forcing dataset;²³
• Scripts for processing, creating, or converting standartised datasets;
• New ideas;³⁴

Conventions

The merged datasets use the Merged Data File (MDF) format: https://gitlab.com/mdf-makers/mdf-toolkit.

Further Reading

Footnotes

1. MOSAiC expedition, mosaic-expedition.org ↩

2. 2nd MOSAiC Science Conference, mosaic.colorado.edu/second-science-conference ↩ ↩²

3. International MOSAiC Science Conference 2024, www.atmo-projects.net/mosaic ↩ ↩²

4. Social channel: MOSAiC on X / Twitter ↩