NA-CORDEX - North American component of the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment

Description

The NA-CORDEX dataset contains regional climate change scenario data and guidance for North America, for use in impacts, decision-making, and climate science. The NA-CORDEX data archive contains output from regional climate models (RCMs) run over a domain covering most of North America using boundary conditions from global climate model (GCM) simulations in the CMIP5 archive. These simulations run from 1950–2100 with a spatial resolution of 0.22°/25km or 0.44°/50km. This AWS S3 version of the data includes selected variables converted to Zarr format from the original NetCDF. Only daily data are currently available; all daily data were mapped to the Gregorian calendar. Sub-daily data may be added later. Both raw and bias-corrected data are available. Further details about this version of the dataset are available at the documentation link below.

Update Frequency

Rare. NA-CORDEX is complete, but we may occasionally copy additional fields from NCAR to AWS, or fix problems discovered in the data.

License

https://na-cordex.org/terms-use.html

Documentation

https://doi.org/10.26024/9xkm-fp81

Managed By

See all datasets managed by National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Contact

rdahelp@ucar.edu

How to Cite

NA-CORDEX - North American component of the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ncar-na-cordex.

Usage Examples

Tools & Applications

• Intake-ESM Catalog by Brian Bonnlander (NCAR)
  
• Jupyter Notebook and other documentation and tools by Brian Bonnlander, Seth McGinnis (NCAR)
  
• Rendered (static) version of Jupyter Notebook by Brian Bonnlander (NCAR)
  

Publications

• The NA-CORDEX dataset, version 1.0. NCAR Climate Data Gateway, Boulder CO (2017) by Mearns, Linda O., et al.