tams.load_example_mpas_ug#

tams.load_example_mpas_ug()#

Load the example MPAS unstructured grid dataset.

This is a spatial and variable subset of native 15-km global mesh MPAS output.

It has been spatially subsetted so that lat ranges from -5 to 20°N and lon from 85 to 170°E, similar to the example regridded MPAS dataset (load_example_mpas()) except for a smaller lat upper bound.

Like the regridded MPAS dataset, it has hourly tb (estimated brightness temperature) and precip (precipitation rate) for the period 2006-09-08 12 – 2006-09-13 18.

Like the regridded MPAS dataset, tb was estimated using the (black-body) Stefan–Boltzmann law:

\[E = \sigma T^4 \implies T = (E / \sigma)^{1/4}\]

where \(E\) is the OLR (outgoing longwave radiation, olrtoa in MPAS output) in W m^-2 and \(\sigma\) is the Stefan–Boltzmann constant.

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