Idealized COAWST model for wind induced mixed-layer deepening

The idealized test domain is utilized to study vertical tracer mixing without the presence of advection terms. The tracer starts to mix under the application of a surface stress. The model results are intended to be accessed from the THREDDS data server available through the related external resources. The model NetCDF files are stored on this trusted digital repository to ensure backup and longevity of these data.

Tags: barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, coastal processes, dataset, mathematical modeling, All tags... ocean_s_coordinate_g1, oceans, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, service, time, Fewer tags

High resolution idealized COAWST model to test marsh lateral retreat formulations

The numerical model is built using an high resolution (1m) idealized domain to test the implementation of lateral retreat formulations in the COAWST modeling framework. The lateral retreat is calculated within the model and is based on lateral wave thrust.

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, coastal processes, dataset, mathematical modeling, All tags... ocean_s_coordinate_g1, oceans, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, service, time, Fewer tags

Projected Future LOCA Statistical Downscaling (Localized Constructed Analogs) Statistically downscaled CMIP5 climate projections for North America

LOCA is a statistical downscaling technique that uses past history to add improved fine-scale detail to global climate models. We have used LOCA to downscale 32 global climate models from the CMIP5 archive at a 1/16th degree spatial resolution, covering North America from central Mexico through Southern Canada. The historical period is 1950-2005, and there are two future scenarios available: RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 over the period 2006-2100 (although some models stop in 2099). The variables currently available are daily minimum and maximum temperature, and daily precipitation. For more information visit: http://loca.ucsd.edu/

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, Raster; Tags: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, precipitation, service, temperature, All tags... time, Fewer tags

Half degree-Alaska Daily Downscaled Climate Projections by Katharine Hayhoe

In this project, we used an advanced statistical downscaling method that combines high-resolution observations with outputs from 16 different global climate models based on 4 future emission scenarios to generate the most comprehensive dataset of daily temperature and precipitation projections available for climate change impacts in the U.S. The gridded dataset covers the continental United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico at one-eighth degree resolution and Alaska at one-half degree resolution. The high-resolution projections produced by this work have been rigorously quality-controlled for both errors and biases in the global climate and statistical downscaling models. We also calculated projected future...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Air Temperature Atmosphere, Atmospheric Temperature, Maximum Daily Temperature, Minimum Daily Temperature, Precipitation, All tags... Rain, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, service, Fewer tags

Very High-Resolution Dynamic Downscaling of Regional Climate for Use in Long-term Hydrologic Planning along the Red River Valley System

The U.S. Great Plains is known for frequent hazardous convective weather and climate extremes. Across this region, climate change is expected to cause more severe droughts, more intense heavy rainfall events, and subsequently more flooding episodes. These potential changes in climate will adversely affect habitats, ecosystems, and landscapes as well as the fish and wildlife they support. Better understanding and simulation of regional precipitation can help natural resource managers mitigate and adapt to these adverse impacts. In this project, we aim to achieve a better precipitation downscaling in the Great Plains with the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model and use the high quality dynamic downscaling results...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Red River, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, downscaling, service

JMA Non-Hydrostatic Model (NHM): Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Dynamical Downscaled Climate Change Projections

The Japanese Meteorological Agency Non-Hydrostatic Model (NHM) is nested inside the Regional Spectral Model (RSM) at 10 km grid resolution which in turn is forced at the lateral boundaries to dynamically downscale two general circulation models (GCMs) that participated in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5). The downscaled regional climate change projections were developed for two twenty-year timeslices for the high Greenhouse Gas Emission Scenario, RCP8.5. These climate change projections were developed to provide information about climate change for various climate change applications within Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In particular, the model output parameters were saved in response to...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, service, time

4km Monthly Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model Monthly Climate Data for the Continental United States.

This dataset was created using the PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model) climate mapping system, developed by Dr. Christopher Daly, PRISM Climate Group director. PRISM is a unique knowledge-based system that uses point measurements of precipitation, temperature, and other climatic factors to produce continuous, digital grid estimates of monthly, yearly, and event-based climatic parameters. Continuously updated, this unique analytical tool incorporates point data, a digital elevation model, and expert knowledge of complex climatic extremes, including rain shadows, coastal effects, and temperature inversions. PRISM data sets are recognized world-wide as the highest-quality spatial climate...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, Raster; Tags: PRISM Climate Group, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), air temperature, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, All tags... maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation, service, Fewer tags

Simplified Surface Energy Balance Actual Evapotranspiration data for the Conterminous U.S.

Actual ET (ETa) is produced using the operational Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEBop) model (Senay and others, 2013) for the period 2000 to present. The SSEBop setup is based on the Simplified Surface Energy Balance (SSEB) approach (Senay and others, 2007, 2011) with unique parameterization for operational applications. It combines ET fractions generated from remotely sensed MODIS thermal imagery, acquired every 8 days, with reference ET using a thermal index approach. The unique feature of the SSEBop parameterization is that it uses pre-defined, seasonally dynamic, boundary conditions that are unique to each pixel for the hot/dry and cold/wet reference points. Reference: Senay, G. B., Bohms, S., Singh, R....

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: climate, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, landscape, service

Gridded Observed Meteorological Data, 1950-1999

These daily gridded observations at 1/8 degree spatial resolution (about 12 km) are a baseline dataset to be compered to downscaled climate predictions. The grid used is the same as has been used by other 1/8th degree spatial resolution downscaling projects. Before using this dataset, please review the material summarized here: https://my.usgs.gov/confluence/display/GeoDataPortal/2014/04/16/Notice%3A+Evaluation+of+Maurer+gridded+observational+datasets+and+their+impacts+on+downscaled+products

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, Raster; Tags: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, service

Half degree-Alaska Daily Downscaled Climate Projections by Katharine Hayhoe

In this project, we used an advanced statistical downscaling method that combines high-resolution observations with outputs from 16 different global climate models based on 4 future emission scenarios to generate the most comprehensive dataset of daily temperature and precipitation projections available for climate change impacts in the U.S. The gridded dataset covers the continental United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico at one-eighth degree resolution and Alaska at one-half degree resolution. The high-resolution projections produced by this work have been rigorously quality-controlled for both errors and biases in the global climate and statistical downscaling models. We also calculated projected future...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Air Temperature Atmosphere, Atmospheric Temperature, Maximum Daily Temperature, Minimum Daily Temperature, Precipitation, All tags... Rain, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, service, Fewer tags

SBDR Development Testing

Simulation of hydrodynamic circulation in Barnegat Bay for the period from 03-01-2012 to 10-01-2012. The bathymetry of the model was based on the National Ocean Service Hydrographic Survey data, and updated with recent bathymetric measurements. At the landward end (western boundary), we specified point sources of freshwater in accordance with USGS streamflow measurements at 7 gauges, and a radiation boundary condition that allows tidal energy to propagate landward. On the seaward end, tidal water level and velocity amplitudes from the ADCIRC tidal database for the North Atlantic were applied. These were supplemented by the subtidal water level and subtidal barotropic velocity from the ESPreSSO model, which covers...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: CMG_Portal, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Potential Temperature, Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity, Earth Science > Oceans > Sea Surface Topography > Sea Surface Height, All tags... Earth Science Services > Models > Weather Research/Forecast Models, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America > New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase, barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, dataset, latitude, longitude, ocean_s_coordinate_g1, oceans, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, service, time, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 1998

The purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys Coral Reef Monitoring Project1998, absence, aphia, area, array, All tags... array-data, authorship, basis, basisOfRecord, biology, body, bottom, bottomType, calculated, celsius, class, code, common, comprehensive, coral, coral monitoring, country, cover, coverage, data, data_set_ID, database, dataset, datasetID, date, datum, dep, depth, dry, dry tortugas, dynamic, dynamicProperties, ecological, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdateremarks, eventdatetimezone, family, first, firstYear, first_year_of_observation, fish, florida, florida keys, fwri, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, hierarchy, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, information, institude, institution, institutionCode, itis, keys, kingdom, large, lastYear, lastt, lastt_year_of_observation, latitude, locality, longitude, max, max_depth, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, method, min, min_depth, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, north, not, notsampled, number, observation, observed, occurence, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, park, phylum, presence, project, properties, protected, protection, province, quantification, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, remarks, research, reserve, sample, sampleAreaInSquareMeters, samples, sampling, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientificNameIDITIS, scientificNameIDWoRMS, scientificname, sea, seawater, serial, service, set, spatial, species, specificEpithet, square, state, stateProvince, station, status, stewardship, strata, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomic, temperature, time, tner, tortuga, transect, type, vernacularName, vertical, verticalDatum, verticaldatum, video, water, waterBody, waterTemperatureInCelsius, wildlife, worms, year, zone, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1994

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, max_depth, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, min_depth, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Florida Keys Reef Visual Census 1996

In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.; Smith, S.G., et al. 2011, Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition. Fisheries Research 109(2011)25-41; Brandt, M.E., et. al. 2009, A Cooperative Multi-agency Reef Fish Monitoring Protocol for the Florida Keys Coral...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries Reef Fish Monitoring, array, array-data, basis, basisOfRecord, All tags... bibliographic, bibliographiccitation, body, citation, class, code, collection, collectionCode, comprehensive, coordinate, coordinateUncertaintyInMeters, count, country, data, data_set_ID, data_set_name, dataset, datasetID, datasetName, date, datum, dep, depth, dynamic, dynamicProperties, event, eventDate, eventDateRemarks, eventDateTimeZone, eventdate, eventdatetimezone, family, fish, fish sampling, florida, florida keys, genus, geodetic, geodeticDatum, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitat, higher, higherInstitutionCode, identification, identifier, individual, institution, institutionCode, keys, kingdom, large, latitude, length, locality, longitude, marine, material, materialSampleID, max, maximum, maximumDepthInMeters, meters, min, minimum, minimumDepthInMeters, miniumDepthInMeters, monitoring, name, national, number, observed, observedIndividualLengthInCm, observedMeanLengthInCm, order, owner, ownerInstitutionCode, phylum, properties, province, quality, quantificationMethod, quantificationName, quantificationStatus, quantificationUnit, quantificationValue, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, sample, samples, sanctuaries, scientific, scientificName, sea, seawater, service, set, specificEpithet, state, stateProvince, statistics, status, stewardship, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxonomy, time, timeUncertainty, timeseries, timeuncertainty, type, typeStatus, uncertainty, vernacular, vernacularName, verticalDatum, water, waterBody, waterbody, zone, Fewer tags

Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project Florida Keys 2001

ThThe purpose of the Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP) is to monitor the status and trends of selected reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary(FKNMS). CREMP assessments have been conducted annually at fixed sites since 1996 and data collected provides information on the temporal changes in benthic cover and diversity of stony corals and associated marine flora and fauna. The core field methods continue to be underwater videography and timed coral species inventories. Findings presented in this report include data from 109 stations at 37 sites sampled from 1996 through 2008 in the Florida Keys and 1999 through 2008 in the Dry Tortugas. The report describes the annual differences (between...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Coral Reef Evaluation and Monitoring Project (CREMP), about, absence, accepted, acceptedNameAuthorship, All tags... acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, accepted_aphia_database_identification_number, accepted_authorship_information, accepted_name_usage, aphia, aphia_database_identification_number, area, array, array-data, associatedreferences, associatedreferences, authorship, authorship_information, basis, basis of record, basis of record, basisOfRecord, biogeographic, biology, class, class, commission, common, comprehensive, conservation, coral, coral monitoring, coverage, cremp, data, data_set_identification, data_set_name, database, dataset, dataset, datasetName, date, dry tortugas, evaluation, event, eventID, eventdate, eventdate, family, family, fish, florida, florida keys, fwc, fwc-fwri, fwri, genus, genus, geoscientificInformation, gulf of mexico, habitatid, hierarchy, identification, identifier, information, institute, keys, kingdom, kingdom, large, latitude, longitude, marine, meters, monitoring, name, number, obis, occurrence, occurrenceID, occurrenceStatus, occurrence_identification, ocean, order, order, organism, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, organism_per_sample_area, per, percent, percent_coverage, phylum, phylum, presence, project, rank, record, recorded, recordedBy, reef, register, research, revisited, sample, samples, scientific, scientificNameAuthorship, scientific_name, scientificname, scientificnameid, service, set, sitecode, siteid, species, species_name, specificEpithet, square, statement, station, status, stewardship, subregionid, system, taxon, taxonRank, taxon_rank, taxon_status, taxonomic, taxonomicStatus, taxonomic_status, taxonomy, time, unaccepted, usage, v2.3, value, vernacular, vernacularName, vernacular_name, wildlife, world, worms, year, Fewer tags

USGS Barnegat Bay hydrodynamic model for Hurricane Sandy without swell and waves (noSW)

We used the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST; Warner and others, 2010) model to simulate ocean circulation, waves, and sediment transport in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey, during Hurricane Sandy. The simulation period was from October 27 to November 4, 2012. Initial conditions for the salinity and temperature fields in the domain were acquired from a 7-month simulation of the same domain (Defne and Ganju, 2018). We used a 2012 digital terrain model (Andrews and others, 2015) to prescribe the prestorm bathymetry. Wetting and drying was enabled, wave-current interaction was modeled with a boundary-layer formulation accounting for the apparent roughness of waves, and the vortex force formulation...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: CMG_Portal, Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Floods, Earth Science > Oceans > Marine Sediments > Sediment Transport, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Potential Temperature, All tags... Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity, Earth Science > Oceans > Sea Surface Topography > Sea Surface Height, Earth Science Services > Models > Weather Research/Forecast Models, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America > New Jersey, U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase, barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, dataset, hazards, latitude, longitude, ocean processes, ocean_s_coordinate_g1, ocean_sigma_coordinate, oceans, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_surface_wave_significant_height, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, sediment transport, service, time, Fewer tags

Numerical model of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth dynamics in West Falmouth Harbor without nitrate loading

The development of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) growth model within the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Wave-Sediment Transport (COAWST) model leads to a change in SAV biomass. The SAV biomass is computed from temperature, nutrient loading and light predictions obtained from coupled hydrodynamics (temperature), bio-geochemistry (nutrients) and bio-optical (light) models. In exchange, the growth of SAV sequesters or contributes nutrients from the water column and sediment layers. The presence of SAV modulates current and wave attenuation and consequently affects modelled sediment transport. The model of West Falmouth Harbor in Massachusetts, USA was simulated to study the seagrass growth/dieback pattern in a hypothetical...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, NetCDF OPeNDAP Service, OGC WMS Layer; Tags: CMG_Portal, Earth Science > Human Dimensions > Natural Hazards > Floods, Earth Science > Oceans > Marine Sediments >Sediment Transport, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Potential Temperature, All tags... Earth Science > Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity, Earth Science > Oceans > Sea Surface Topography > Sea Surface Height, Earth Science Services > Models > Weather Research/Forecast Models, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America, Location > Continent > North America > United States Of America > Massachusetts, U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase, barotropic_sea_water_x_velocity, barotropic_sea_water_y_velocity, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, coastal processes, dataset, latitude, longitude, ocean_s_coordinate_g1, ocean_sigma_coordinate, sea_surface_height_above_geopotential_datum, sea_surface_wave_significant_height, sea_water_potential_temperature, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_x_velocity, sea_water_y_velocity, sediment transport, service, time, Fewer tags

Sqigwts 3-D Landscape

The Sqigwts 3-D Landscape is an interactive three-dimensional experience developed to provide an opportunity to effectively learn about the important cultural significance of sqigwts, the water potato (Sagittaria latifolia), to the Schitsu’umsh or Coeur d’Alene Indian Tribe (of the Pacific Northwest USA). The goal is to provide information on the potential vulnerability of this species to climate change and of the Schitsu’umsh living relationship with it. Schitsu’umsh knowledge and practice is called hnkhwelkhwlnet, meaning “our ways of life in the world,” and is conveyed through acts of re-telling oral traditions and stories. For the Schitsu’umsh, storytelling is a living act and can only truly occur in-person...

Categories: Web Site; Types: Application; Tags: Coeur d'Alene Tribal Lands, Data Visualization & Tools, Idaho, Indigenous Peoples, National CASC, All tags... Northwest CASC, Sagittaria latifolia, Science Tools For Managers, Tribes and Tribal Organizations, biota, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, duck-potato, empathetic adaptability, environment, health, hnkhwelkhwlnet, indigenous knowledge, lakes, service, snukwnkhwtskhwts’mi’ls ł stsee’nidmsh, society, sqigwts, traditional knowledge, wapato, water potato, Fewer tags

South Central Climate Projections Evaluation Project (C-PrEP)

Global climate models (GCMs) are numerically complex, computationally intensive, physics-based research tools used to simulate our planet’s inter-connected climate system. In addition to improving the scientific understanding of how the large-scale climate system works, GCM simulations of past and future climate conditions can be useful in applied research contexts. When seeking to apply information from global-scale climate projections to address local- and regional-scale climate questions, GCM-generated datasets often undergo statistical post-processing generally known as statistical downscaling (hereafter, SD). There are many different SD techniques, with all using information from observations to address GCM...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: climate, climate change, climate projections, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, All tags... downscaling, service, Fewer tags

Dynamical Downscaling for the Midwest and Great Lakes Basin

Six global climate models (GCMs) from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase Five (CMIP5) were dynamically downscaled to 25-km grid spacing according to the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) scenario using the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Regional Climate Model Version Four (RegCM4), interactively coupled to a 1D lake model to represent the Great Lakes. These GCMs include the Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques Coupled Global Climate Model Version Five (CNRM-CM5), the Model for Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Version Five (MIROC5), the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace Coupled Model Version Five-Medium Resolution (IPSL-CM5-MR), the Meteorological Research...

Categories: Data; Types: NetCDF OPeNDAP Service; Tags: Great Lakes, climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere, dataset, downscaling, service