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
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1
- Citation identifier
- ClimAVA-SWE
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26050/WDCC/ClimAVA-SWE
- Name
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NetCDF
- Keywords
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CMIP6
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Western United States
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- Keywords
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downscale
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machine learning
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- Keywords
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snow water equivalent
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- Use limitation
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CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Language
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eng; USA
- Begin date
- 1981-01-01
- End date
- 2100-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UAES, USU//Grant%2FAward No: UTA01726/US//UAES grants
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NetCDF
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NetCDF
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- Transfer size
- 114078
- OnLine resource
- https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=ClimAVA-SWE
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Attribute description
- surface_snow_amount
- Descriptor
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surface_snow_amount [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
- Attribute description
- surface_snow_amount
- Descriptor
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surface_snow_amount [CF-Standard Name]; unit: kg m-2
- File identifier
- wdc-climate.de:5332410 XML
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eng; USA
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Hierarchy level name
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ClimAVA-SWE
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-09T09:42:28
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115-2:2009
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