4-KM WRF CONUS I Simulations

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Two 13-year simulations were performed by NCAR, consisting of a retrospective simulation (October 2000 to September 2013) with initial and boundary conditions from ERA-Interim and a future climate sensitivity simulation with initial and boundary conditions derived from reanalysis and modified by adding the CMIP5 ensemble mean of the high emission scenario climate change.

Two NCAR simulations (13-year): (1) retrospective simulation (October 2000 to September 2013) with initial and boundary conditions from ERA-Interim (2) future climate sensitivity simulation with initial and boundary conditions derived from reanalysis and modified by adding the CMIP5 ensemble mean of the high emission scenario climate change.

The dataset is from a high resolution climate change simulation that permits convection and resolves mesoscale orography at 4 km grid spacing over much of North America using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The project aims to provide new insights into the future occurrence of precipitation-related extremes including drought, intense precipitation events and hazardous winter precipitation. Such extremes impact many sectors across Canada including agriculture, electrical utilities, engineering design, health, and insurance.

Liu, Changhai, Kyoko Ikeda, Roy Rasmussen, Mike Barlage, Andrew J. Newman, Andreas F. Prein, Fei Chen, Liang Chen, Martyn Clark, Aiguo Dai, Jimy Dudhia, Trude Eidhammer, David Gochis, Ethan Gutmann, Sopan Kurkute, Yanping Li, Gregory Thompson and David Yates, 2017: Continental-scale convection-permitting modeling of the current and future climate of North America. Climate Dynamics, 49, 71-95 ( https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-016-3327-9 ). Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V40SXP

First image: CONUS domain Second image: Lambert Conformal grid

The dataset is from a high resolution climate change simulation that permits convection and resolves mesoscale orography at 4 km grid spacing over much of North America using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Two 13 years simulations were performed, consisting of a retrospective simulation (October 2000 to September 2013) with initial and boundary conditions from ERA-Interim and a future climate sensitivity simulation with initial and boundary conditions derived from reanalysis and modified by adding the CMIP5 ensemble mean of the high emission scenario climate change.

No restriction (Data is currently open to public)

Note the size of this dataset is almost 200,000 GB. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V40SXP This dataset can be subsetted and may be available on Cuizinart https://tuna.cs.uwaterloo.ca (or cuizinart.io should "tuna" link become inoperable) Select product ctl-wrf-conus