The SPARC water vapour assessment II: Comparison of annual, semi-annual and quasi-biennial variations in stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour observed from satellites

Here we provide a NetCDF data set that contains the amplitudes and phases for the annual, semi-annual and quasi-biennial variations in stratospheric and lower mesospheric water vapour as observed by 30 satellite data sets. In addition, we combine the results from all data sets to provide average amplitudes and the corresponding standard deviations, among other. The content description of the NetCDF file looks as follows: netcdf results.amt-10-1111-2017 { dimensions: dataset = 30 ; string_length = 60 ; latitude = 37 ; bands = 2 ; altitude = 59 ; variables: char dataset_short(string_length, dataset) ; dataset_short:standard_name = "data set" ; dataset_short:long_name = "data set name" ; dataset_short:description = "short label of data set" ; char dataset_long(string_length, dataset) ; dataset_long:standard_name = "data set" ; dataset_long:long_name = "data set name" ; dataset_long:description = "long label of data set" ; double latitude(latitude) ; latitude:standard_name = "latitude" ; latitude:units = "degree_north" ; latitude:minimum_value = "-90" ; latitude:maximum_value = "90" ; latitude:axis = "Y" ; latitude:_CoordinateAxisType = "Lat" ; double latitude_bands(bands, latitude) ; latitude_bands:units = "degree_north" ; double altitude(altitude) ; altitude:standard_name = "altitude" ; altitude:long_name = "pressure levels" ; altitude:units = "hPa" ; altitude:axis = "Z" ; altitude:_CoordinateAxisType = "Alt" ; double tropopause(latitude) ; tropopause:standard_name = "tropopause" ; tropopause:long_name = "tropopause pressure" ; tropopause:description = "climatological tropopause pressure based on MERRA reanalysis data 2000 - 2014" ; tropopause:units = "hPa" ; // global attributes: :summary = "this file contains the results published in Lossow et al. (2017)" ; :url = "https://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/10/1111/2017/amt-10-1111-2017.html" ; :project = "second SPARC water vapour assessment (WAVAS-II)" ; :creator_name = "Stefan Lossow & Farahnaz Khosrawi" ; :creator_email = "stefan.lossow@kit.edu & farahnaz.khosrawi@kit.edu" ; :creator_email_supplemental = "stefan.lossow@yahoo.se & f.khosrawi@gmail.com" ; :value_for_nodata = "NaN" ; :date_created = "20190105T112425Z" ; group: AO { dimensions: latitude = 37 ; altitude = 59 ; dataset = 30 ; variables: double amplitude(dataset, altitude, latitude) ; amplitude:standard_name = "amplitude" ; amplitude:long_name = "amplitude of the AO variation" ; amplitude:description = "regression model is given by Eq. (1) in the manusc