Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive

Seth McGinnis; Linda Mearns

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100233

Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive

Seth McGinnis
, Linda Mearns

National Center for Atmospheric Research

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The NA-CORDEX data archive contains output from regional climate models run over a domain covering most of North America using boundary conditions from reanalyses and global climate model simulations in the CMIP5 archive. These simulations run from 1950 to 2100 with a spatial resolution of 0.22°/25 km or 0.44°/50 km. Data is available for impacts-relevant variables at daily and longer frequencies in CF-compliant netCDF format. Five of the major variables used by impacts researchers as well as decision makers have also been bias-corrected so that the data can be correctly used for impacts research and stakeholder decision-making. This archive of CORDEX regional simulation outputs for North America makes up the core data element in a climate service that supports appropriate use of these data in climate impacts research and decision-making.

Original language	English
Article number	100233
Journal	Climate Services
Volume	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100233
State	Published - Apr 2021

Keywords

CORDEX
Climate change
Climate impacts
Dynamical downscaling
North America
Regional climate modeling

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