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Climate data for adaptation and vulnerability assessments — northwest

Climate data for adaptation and vulnerability assessments — northwest (ClimAVA-NW) provides bias-corrected, downscaled daily climatic data at ~4km spatial resolution from 17 CMIP6 GCMs, three different climatic variables (pr, tasmax, and tasmin), and three different shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585). Historical runs span from January 1, 1981, to December 31, 2014. Future scenarios span from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2100. The ClimAVA-NW dataset encompasses the geopolitical boundaries of the five states in the northwestern United States: Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, Montana, and Washington. Employing the Spatial Pattern Interactions Downscaling (SPID) method, ClimAVA ensures high-quality downscaling using machine learning models. These models capture the relationship between spatial patterns at Global Circulation Model (GCM) resolution and fine-resolution pixel values derived from the reference data (PRISM 4K). A random forest model is trained for each pixel, using the finer reference data as a predictand and nine pixels from the spatially resampled (coarser) version of the reference data as predictors. These models are then utilized to downscale the bias-corrected GCM data. Results from this method have proven to maintain climate realism and greatly represent extreme events.

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Date (Publication)
2025-02-05
Edition

1

Citation identifier
ClimAVA-NW
Citation identifier
doi:10.26050/WDCC/ClimAVA-NW
Principal investigator
  Utah State University - Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh
https://www.usu.edu/
Author
  Utah State University - Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh
https://www.usu.edu/
Author
  Utah State University - Dr. Andre Geraldo de Lima Moraes
https://www.usu.edu/
Publisher
  WDCC
Point of contact
  Utah State University - Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh
https://www.usu.edu/
Name

NetCDF

Keywords
  • CMIP6

Keywords
  • Northwest United States

Keywords
  • downscale

Keywords
  • machine learning

Use limitation

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
1981-01-01
End date
2100-12-31
Supplemental Information

info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UAES//UTA01726/US//UAES grants

Distribution format
  • NetCDF ()

Transfer size
486609
OnLine resource
https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=ClimAVA-NW
Hierarchy level
collection
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: degC

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: degC

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: degC

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

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

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: degC

File identifier
wdc-climate.de:5282855 XML
Metadata language

eng; USA

Hierarchy level
collection
Hierarchy level name

ClimAVA-NW

Date stamp
2025-01-16T11:29:49
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115-2:2009

Point of contact
  Utah State University - Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh
https://www.usu.edu/
 
 

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