Downscaled Climate Data for Alaska (v1.1, August 2023)

Description

This dataset contains historical and projected dynamically downscaled climate data for the State of Alaska and surrounding regions at 20km spatial resolution and hourly temporal resolution. Select variables are also summarized into daily resolutions. This data was produced using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model (Version 3.5). We downscaled both ERA-Interim historical reanalysis data (1979-2015) and both historical and projected runs from 2 GCM’s from the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project 5 (CMIP5): GFDL-CM3 and NCAR-CCSM4 (historical run: 1970-2005 and RCP 8.5: 2006-2100). Note - this dataset was updated in August, 2023 to retain the latitude and longitude grids as variables in the files.

Update Frequency

as needed

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Documentation

https://catalog.snap.uaf.edu/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/7825535c-edff-4a82-89f3-9183e6cb2b42

Managed By

Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

See all datasets managed by Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planning at the International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Contact

http://directory.iarc.uaf.edu/peter-bieniek

How to Cite

Downscaled Climate Data for Alaska (v1.1, August 2023) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/wrf-alaska-snap.

Usage Examples

Publications

• Atmospheric Circulation Drivers of Extreme High Water Level Events at Foggy Island Bay, Alaska by Peter A. Bieniek, Li Erikson, and Jeremy Kasper
  
• Dynamical Downscaling of ERA-Interim Temperature and Precipitation for Alaska by Peter A. Bieniek, Uma S. Bhatt, John E. Walsh, T. Scott Rupp, Jing Zhang, Jeremy R. Krieger, and Rick Lader