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Climate data for adaptation and vulnerability assessments (SWE) – west

The ClimAVA_SWE data set — where ClimAVA stands for Climate Data for Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments — provides high-resolution (4 km) future climate projections derived from 13 CMIP6 General Circulation Models (GCMs). It focuses on Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), a crucial indicator of water availability, hydrologic extremes, and climate-related vulnerability, and includes projections for three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585) at a daily temporal scale. The initial release of ClimAVA_SWE covers the entire western United States. ClimAVA_SWE is produced using the newly developed Spatial Interactions Downscaling (SPID) method, which ensures high-quality downscaling through advanced machine learning techniques. SPID captures the relationship between large-scale spatial patterns at GCM resolution and fine-scale pixel values. For each pixel, two Random Forest models (one for the accumulation period and one for the ablation period) were trained using fine-resolution reference data as the predictand, and nine neighboring pixels from a spatially resampled (coarser) version of the reference data as predictors. These trained models are then applied to bias-corrected GCM data to generate the downscaled projections. The resulting dataset maintains strong climate realism and effectively represents extreme events.

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Date (Publication)
2025-11-27
Edition

1

Citation identifier
ClimAVA-SWE
Citation identifier
doi:10.26050/WDCC/ClimAVA-SWE
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/
Author
  Utah State University - Kayla Smith
https://www.usu.edu/
Publisher
  WDCC
Point of contact
  Utah State University - Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh
https://www.usu.edu/
Name

NetCDF

Keywords
  • CMIP6

Keywords
  • Western United States

Keywords
  • downscale

Keywords
  • machine learning

Keywords
  • snow water equivalent

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, USU//Grant%2FAward No: UTA01726/US//UAES grants

Distribution format
  • NetCDF ()

Transfer size
114078
OnLine resource
https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=ClimAVA-SWE
Hierarchy level
collection
Attribute description
surface_snow_amount
Descriptor

surface_snow_amount [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2

Attribute description
surface_snow_amount
Descriptor

surface_snow_amount [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2

File identifier
wdc-climate.de:5332410 XML
Metadata language

eng; USA

Hierarchy level
collection
Hierarchy level name

ClimAVA-SWE

Date stamp
2025-11-09T09:42:28
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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