This readme.txt file was generated on <20200415> by Bingqing Deng


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GENERAL INFORMATION
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1. Title of Dataset 
Supporting Data for 'Numerical study of near-surface jet in the atmospheric surface layer over oceanic fronts'

2. Author Information

  Principal Investigator Contact Information
        Name: Lian Shen
           Institution: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Minnesota
           Address: 2 Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
           Email: shen@umn.edu
	   ORCID: 0000-0003-3762-3829

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
        Name: Bingqing Deng
           Institution: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Minnesota
           Address: 2 Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
           Email: bdeng@umn.edu
	   ORCID: 0000-0003-1483-9694

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
           Name:Ming-Xiang Zhao
           Institution: St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Mechanical Engineering of the University of Minnesota
           Address: 2 Third Avenue SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414
           Email: zhao1072@umn.edu

  Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information
           Name:Qing Wang
           Institution:Naval Postgraduate School
           Address: 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA 93943
           Email: qwang@nps.edu

3. Date of data collection: 2019-10-13 to 2020-02-17


4. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:

This research is supported by the Office of Naval Research as part of the Coastal Air–Sea Process and Electromagnetic Research (CASPER) project under its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program managed by Dr. Daniel Eleuterio and Dr. Steven Russell.



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SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION
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1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States

2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:

Numerical study of near-surface jet in the atmospheric surface layer over oceanic fronts (submitted to JGR-Atmosphere)


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: n/a


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: n/a


5. Was data derived from another source? No
           If yes, list source(s):


6. Recommended citation for the data:
Deng, Bing-Qing; Zhao, Ming-Xiang; Wang, Qing; Shen, Lian. (2020). Supporting Data for 'Numerical Study of Near-Surface Jet in the Atmospheric Surface Layer over Oceanic Fronts'. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota. https://doi.org/10.13020/pgn6-3m47

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DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
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1. File List
   A. Filename:  Measurements.txt
      Short description:  Vertical variations of the mean velocity profiles on the warm-water side and cold water side obtained from field observation
       
   B. Filename:  UM_SIMULATION_DNS.txt
      Short description:  Vertical varations of the mean velocity profiles at different downwind locations obtained from the direct numerical simulation (DNS)
        
   C. Filename:  UM_SIMULATION_LES.txt
      Short description: Vertical varations of the mean velocity profiles at different downwind locations obtained from the large-eddy simulation (LES)

   D. Filename:  Mean temperature.txt
      Short description: Vertical variation of the mean temperature 

   E. Filename:  Vertical variance.txt
      Short description: Vertical varation of the variance of the vertical velocity

   F. Filename:  Vertical mean velocity.txt
      Short description: Vertical variation of the mean vertical velocity

   G. Filename:  Vortex.txt
      Short description: Distribution of the vertical and spanwise velocity in the y-z plane

   H. Filename:  Total streamwise momentum flux.txt
      Short description: Vertical profiles of the streamwise momentum flux along the vertical direction 

   I. Filename: Reynolds shear stress.txt
	Short description: vertical profiles of the Reynolds shear stress

   J. Filename: Mean streamwise momentum flux.txt
	Short description: vertical profiles of the streamwise momentum flux contributed by the mean velocity

   K. Filename: Surface stress.txt
	Short description: Streamwise variation of the mean surface stress

   L. Filename: Gradient_Richardson.txt
	Short description: Gradient Richardson number on the X-Z plane


2. Relationship between files: 

The data was generated and written by our in-house codes. Its format matches the requirement of the software Tecplot, and hence the users can open the data using Tecplot.

Direct numerical simulation and large-eddy simulation are terminologies in the area of computational fluid dynamics. They refer to two kinds of grid resolutions in the numerical simulation using our in-house code.