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Very fine resolution dynamically downscaled climate data for Hawaii Clouds often come in contact with vegetation (often named fogs) within a certain elevation range on Hawai‘i’s mountains. Propelled by strong winds, cloud droplets are driven onto the stems and leaves of plants where they are deposited. Some of the water that accumulates on the plants in this way drips to the ground, adding additional water over and above the water supplied by rainfall. Prior observations show that the amount of cloud water intercepted by vegetation is substantial, but also quite variable from place to place. It is, therefore, important to create a map for the complex spatial patterns of cloud water interception (CWI) in Hawai‘i. In this project, we propose to create the CWI map at 0.8-km resolution... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Hawaii, Maui, climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, All tags... downscaling, service, Fewer tags Dynamical Downscaled and Projected Climate for the US Pacific Islands -- Methods -- The Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF) is applied to construct triply-nested meshes. The outermost domain (20-km horizontal resolution) is large enough to cover almost the whole tropical and subtropical areas from the central Pacific to the western Pacific. The intermediate domain has 4-km horizontal resolution, and the innermost domain of each individual island has a horizontal resolution of 0.8 km. The driving fields for the atmosphere are the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications reanalysis, and the sea surface temperature (SST) is from NOAA. Variables in the driving fields include temperature, wind, geopotential height, water vapor, etc. For the future runs,... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Guam, Kauai, Oahu, Pacific, RCP4.5, All tags... RCP8.5, Samoa, climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, dynamical downscaling, service, Fewer tags Monitoring and projecting snow on Hawaii Island The highest mountain peaks on Hawaii Island are snow covered for part of almost every year. This snow has aesthetic and recreational value as well as cultural significance for residents and visitors. Thus far there have been almost no systematic observations of snowfall, snow cover, or snow depth in Hawaii. Here we use satellite observations to construct a daily index of Hawaii Island snow cover starting from 2000. The seasonal mean of our index displays large interannual variations that are correlated with the seasonal mean freezing level and frequency of trade wind inversions as determined from nearby balloon soundings. Our snow cover index provides a diagnostic for monitoring climate variability and trends within... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Citation, Journal, LCC Network Science Catalog, Pacific Islands LCC, Publication, All tags... completed, Fewer tags Very fine resolution dynamically downscaled climate data for Hawaii Clouds often come in contact with vegetation (often named fogs) within a certain elevation range on Hawai‘i’s mountains. Propelled by strong winds, cloud droplets are driven onto the stems and leaves of plants where they are deposited. Some of the water that accumulates on the plants in this way drips to the ground, adding additional water over and above the water supplied by rainfall. Prior observations show that the amount of cloud water intercepted by vegetation is substantial, but also quite variable from place to place. It is, therefore, important to create a map for the complex spatial patterns of cloud water interception (CWI) in Hawai‘i. In this project, we propose to create the CWI map at 0.8-km resolution... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Hawaii, Maui, climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, All tags... downscaling, service, Fewer tags Dynamical Downscaling of the Climate for the Hawaiian Islands. Part II: Projection for the Late Twenty-First Century A 20-yr simulation with a fine-resolution regional atmospheric model for projected late twenty-first-century conditions in Hawaii is presented. The pseudo-global-warming method is employed, and the boundary conditions are based on a multimodel mean of projections made with global coupled models run with a moderate greenhouse gas emissions scenario. Results show that surface air temperature over land increases ;28–48C with the greatest warming at the highest topographic heights. A modest tendency for the warming to be larger on the leeward sides of the major islands is also apparent. Climatological rainfall is projected to change up to ;25% at many locations. The currently wet windward sides of the major islands... Categories: Data, Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Citation, Journal, LCC Network Science Catalog, Pacific Islands LCC, Publication, All tags... completed, Fewer tags Dynamical Downscaled and Projected Climate for the US Pacific Islands -- Methods -- The Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF) is applied to construct triply-nested meshes. The outermost domain (20-km horizontal resolution) is large enough to cover almost the whole tropical and subtropical areas from the central Pacific to the western Pacific. The intermediate domain has 4-km horizontal resolution, and the innermost domain of each individual island has a horizontal resolution of 0.8 km. The driving fields for the atmosphere are the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications reanalysis, and the sea surface temperature (SST) is from NOAA. Variables in the driving fields include temperature, wind, geopotential height, water vapor, etc. For the future runs,... Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Guam, Kauai, Oahu, Pacific, RCP4.5, All tags... RCP8.5, Samoa, climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, dynamical downscaling, service, Fewer tags