Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium ClimateWNA

ClimateWNA: A program to generate high-resolution climate data for climate change studies and applications in western North America Overview ClimateWNA extracts and downscales PRISM (Daly et al. 2002) monthly data (2.5 x 2.5 arcmin) for the reference period (1961-1990), and calculates seasonal and annual climate variables for specific locations based on latitude, longitude and elevation (optional) for western North America, shown in the map on the right. This program also downscales and integrates historical (1901-2011) (Mitchell and Jones 2005 for 1901-2009) and future climate data (2020s, 2050s and 2080s) generated by various global circulation models. The output includes both directly calculated and derived...

Tags: AK, AR4, Alaska, BC, British Columbia, All tags... CA, California, Downscaling, GCMs, Global Circulation Models, IPCC Fourth Assessment, NPLCC, North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, OR, Oregon, PCIC, PRISM, WA, Washington, climate scenarios, degree-days, frost free days, future climate data, monthly climate, precip, precipitation, seasonal climate variables, temperature, tmax, tmin, Fewer tags