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MITJP-MSD: Large-ensemble 21st century monthly hydro-climatological forcing dataset

We develop a self-consistent, large ensemble, high-resolution, bias-corrected global dataset of future climates for a set of four possible 21st century scenarios, which is suitable for assessing local-scale climate change impacts and climate policy benefits from a risk-based perspective across different applications. Four emission scenarios represent the existing energy and environmental policies and commitments of potential future pathways, namely, Reference, Paris Forever, Paris 2°C and Paris 1.5°C. We employ the MIT Integrated Global System Modeling (IGSM) framework, which consists of the MIT Earth System Model (MESM) of intermediate complexity and the Economic Projections and Policy Analysis model (EPPA). The EPPA characterizes detailed economic activities to track inter-sectoral and inter-regional links, while the MESM represents key physical, chemical, and biological components of the Earth system that are impacted by human activity. Such integrated framework ensures consistent treatment of interactions among population growth, economic development, energy and land system changes and physical climate responses, which can provide improved assessments of climate impacts and climate policy benefits across multiple sectors. The MESM contains a two-dimensional (zonally averaged) atmospheric model with interactive chemistry coupled to the zonally averaged version of Global Land System model and an anomaly-diffusing ocean model. This architecture allows for conducting a large ensemble of climate simulations for robust uncertainty analyses at significantly less computational cost than state-of-the-art climate models. In addition, we apply a combined spatial disaggregation (SD) – bias correction (BC) delta method with SD for achieving the high resolution and BC for correcting the biases inherent in the MESM future climate projections. The delta method adds the anomalies or deltas (future climate trends) onto a historical, detrended climate that is based on the third phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP3, http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GSWP3/ ). The anomalies or deltas are derived by spatially disaggregating the IGSM zonal climate projections based on regional hydroclimate change patterns from the 18 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) climate models. For each emission scenario, a distribution of plausible trajectories is provided by a 50-member ensemble to represent the uncertainty in the Earth system (e.g., the climate sensitivity, rate of heat uptake by the ocean, uncertainty in carbon cycle), allowing for constructing a 900-member ensemble of regional climate outcomes. The dataset contains nine key meteorological variables on a monthly scale from 2021 to 2100 at a spatial resolution of 0.5°x 0.5°, including precipitation, air temperature (mean, minimum and maximum), near-surface wind speed, shortwave and longwave radiation, specific humidity, and relative humidity. A technical evaluation indicates the dataset well represents the expected large-scale climate features across various regions of the globe and can meet various needs associated with climate impact assessments, including uncertainty analyses, risk quantification, climate policy mitigation, and driving climate impact models which require monthly data inputs, on both global and regional scales. There is no model version. But all the developed models are available online ( https://globalchange.mit.edu/research/research-tools/earth-system-model ) and have relevant licenses. On the website you could find the following information: The source code of the MESM is publicly available for non-commercial research and educational purposes via github (i.e. github.com:mit-jp/igsm.git). Under this open source protocol, we have also established a software license through the MIT Technology Licensing Office. As the MESM has embedded models developed at three other institutions, appropriate copyright clearances for the third-party code are required.

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Date (Publication)
2023-02-07
Edition

1

Citation identifier
MITJP-MSD_LE
Citation identifier
doi:10.26050/WDCC/MITJP-MSD_LE
Principal investigator
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Xiang Gao
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Author
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Xiang Gao
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Author
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Andrei Sokolov
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Author
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Adam Schlosser
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Publisher
  WDC Climate at DKRZ
Point of contact
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Xiang Gao
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NetCDF

Keywords
  • CMIP6

Keywords
  • bias-correction

Keywords
  • climate impact

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  • earth system model

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  • forcing dataset

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  • large ensemble

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  • spatial disaggregation

Keywords
  • statistical reconstruction

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CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Language

eng; USA

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Begin date
2021-01-01
End date
2100-12-31
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ()

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41573138
OnLine resource
https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=MITJP-MSD_LE
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collection

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Attribute description
air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface (maximum)
Descriptor

air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface (maximum); unit: K

Attribute description
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air (trend)
Descriptor

surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air_trend [CF-Standard Name (cell_method:time)]; unit: W m-2

Attribute description
air_temperature-atNearSurface
Descriptor

Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: K

Attribute description
precipitation_flux_trend
Descriptor

precipitation_flux_trend; unit: mm d-1

Attribute description
air_temperature-atNearSurface (minimum)
Descriptor

Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. (minimum) [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate-cell_method]; unit: K

Attribute description
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air (trend)
Descriptor

surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air_trend [CF-Standard Name (cell_method:time)]; unit: W m-2

Attribute description
wind_speed-atNearSurface
Descriptor

wind_speed-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: m s-1

Attribute description
air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface (minimum)
Descriptor

air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface (minimum); unit: K

Attribute description
wind_speed_trend-atNearSurface
Descriptor

wind_speed_trend-atNearSurface; unit: m s-1

Attribute description
surface_specific_humidity_trend
Descriptor

surface_specific_humidity_trend; unit: kg kg-1

Attribute description
precipitation_flux
Descriptor

In accordance with common usage in geophysical disciplines, "flux" implies per unit area, called "flux density" in physics. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: mm d-1

Attribute description
air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface
Descriptor

air_temperature_trend-atNearSurface; unit: K

Attribute description
relative_humidity_trend
Descriptor

relative_humidity_trend; unit: None

Attribute description
air_temperature-atNearSurface (maximum)
Descriptor

Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. (maximum) [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate-cell_method]; unit: K

Attribute description
relative_humidity
Descriptor

relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: None

Attribute description
surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
Descriptor

surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2

Attribute description
surface_specific_humidity
Descriptor

The surface called "surface" means the lower boundary of the atmosphere. "specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg kg-1

Attribute description
surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air
Descriptor

surface_downwelling_longwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2

File identifier
wdc-climate.de:3964631 XML
Metadata language

eng; USA

Hierarchy level
collection
Hierarchy level name

MITJP-MSD_LE

Date stamp
2022-11-29T15:01:50
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115-2:2009

Point of contact
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Xiang Gao
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