Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4035-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-4035-2021
Methods for assessment of models
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29 Jun 2021
Methods for assessment of models |  | 29 Jun 2021

A climatology of tropical wind shear produced by clustering wind profiles from the Met Office Unified Model (GA7.0)

Mark R. Muetzelfeldt, Robert S. Plant, Peter A. Clark, Alison J. Stirling, and Steven J. Woolnough

Data sets

Climatology of shear: UM10.9 GA7.0 output data 19880901-19930601 Mark R. Muetzelfeldt http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7831574

Model code and software

omnium workflow manager Mark R. Muetzelfeldt https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14709909.v1

cosar_analysis analysis code Mark R. Muetzelfeldt https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14709864.v1

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Short summary
Wind shear causes organized convection in the tropics, producing, e.g., squall lines. We have developed a procedure for producing a climatology of sheared wind profiles in a climate model and demonstrated that the profiles are linked with organized convection, both in terms of their structure and their spatio-temporal distribution. The procedure could be used to diagnose organization of convection in a climate model, which could lead to improvements in the model's representation of convection.