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North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) Dataset

  • Seth McGinnis (Creator)
  • Linda Mearns (Contributor)
  • Raymond Arritt (Contributor)
  • Sébastien Biner (Contributor)
  • Phillip Duffy (Contributor)
  • William Gutowski (Contributor)
  • Isaac Held (Contributor)
  • Richard Jones (Contributor)
  • Ruby Leung (Contributor)
  • Ana Nunes (Contributor)
  • Mark Snyder (Contributor)
  • Daniel Caya (Contributor)
  • James Correia (Contributor)
  • David Flory (Contributor)
  • Daryl Herzmann (Contributor)
  • René Laprise (Contributor)
  • Wilfran Moufouma-Okia (Contributor)
  • Gene Takle (Contributor)
  • Haiyan Teng (Contributor)
  • Josh Thompson (Contributor)
  • Simon Tucker (Contributor)
  • Bruce Wyman (Contributor)
  • Anila Anitha (Contributor)
  • Lawrence Buja (Contributor)
  • Christopher Macintosh (Contributor)
  • Larry McDaniel (Contributor)
  • Travis O'Brien (Contributor)
  • Yun Qian (Contributor)
  • Lisa Sloan (Contributor)
  • Gary Strand (Contributor)
  • Casey Zoellick (Contributor)

Dataset

Description

The NARCCAP data archive contains output from 6 regional climate models (RCMs) run over a domain covering most of North America using boundary conditions from 4 different global climate models (GCMs) in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (CMIP3) archive and from National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalysis. The simulations run from 1970-2000 and 2040-2070 with a spatial resolution of 50 km. Data is available at 3-hourly frequency for 35 impacts-relevant surface variables and 7 3-D variables in Climate and Forecast (CF)-compliant Network Common Data Form (netCDF) format.
Date made availableJun 13 2014
PublisherNSF NCAR - National Center for Atmospheric Research

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