Historical and Projected Dynamically Downscaled Climate Data for the State of Alaska and Surrounding Regions at 20km Spatial Resolution and Hourly Temporal Resolution (ver. 1.1, August 2023)
Dates
Metadata Creation Date
2023-09-21 15:37
Start Date
1970-01-02
End Date
2100-12-31
Summary
This dataset contains historical and projected dynamically downscaled climate data for the State of Alaska and surrounding regions at 20km spatial resolution and hourly temporal resolution. Select variables are also summarized into daily resolutions. This data was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Version 3.5). We downscaled both ERA-Interim historical reanalysis data (1979 - Oct 2015) and both historical and projected runs from 2 GCM’s from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5): GFDL-CM3 and NCAR-CCSM4 (historical run: 1970-2005 and RCP 8.5: 2006-2100). This dataset was updated in August, 2023 to retain useful fields of latitude and longitude geolocation grids from the WRF model. AWS [...]
Summary
This dataset contains historical and projected dynamically downscaled climate data for the State of Alaska and surrounding regions at 20km spatial resolution and hourly temporal resolution. Select variables are also summarized into daily resolutions. This data was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Version 3.5). We downscaled both ERA-Interim historical reanalysis data (1979 - Oct 2015) and both historical and projected runs from 2 GCM’s from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5): GFDL-CM3 and NCAR-CCSM4 (historical run: 1970-2005 and RCP 8.5: 2006-2100). This dataset was updated in August, 2023 to retain useful fields of latitude and longitude geolocation grids from the WRF model.
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Historical and Projected Dynamically Downscaled Climate Data for the State of Alaska and surrounding regions at 20km spatial resolution and hourly temporal resolution
P. A. Bieniek, U. S. Bhatt, J. E. Walsh, T. S. Rupp, J. Zhang, J. R. Krieger, and R. Lader, (2016) Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Temperature and Precipitation for Alaska. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 55, 635–654, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-15-0153.1
P.A. Bieniek, L. Erikson, J. Kasper, (2022) Atmospheric Circulation Drivers of Extreme High Water Level Events at Foggy Island Bay, Alaska. Atmosphere 13, 1791. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13111791
Revision 1.1 by Kyle Redilla on October 26, 2023. To review the changes that were made, see “v20kmAKWRF_ver.1.1_notes.txt” in the attached files section.