Multi-decadal Convection-permitting Simulation of Current Climate over South America using WRF

A high resolution convection-permitting climate change simulation was performed at 4 km grid spacing covering the entire continent of South America. The simulation was performed using Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model. This dataset is from a 22-year simulation representing the current climate between January 2001 and January 2022. ERA5 data was used to initialize the model and force boundary every 3 hours. This high resolution simulation allowed for much improved representation of topography, convection, and orographic precipitation and snowpack, resulting in a unique dataset that can be used to study the hydroclimate processes in South America.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1999-12-31T00:00:00Z
    End:  2022-01-01T23:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1999-12-31T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2022-01-01T23:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 15.4351
Bounding Box South Lat -54.6933
Bounding Box West Long -93.6642
Bounding Box East Long -19.5515
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 4000 m
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 0.00 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Rasmussen, Roy
Liu, Changhai
Ikeda, Kyoko
Dominguez, Francina
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2022-10-31
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/6XQW-ZB02
Alternate Identifier d616000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2024-08-10T15:05:15Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d616000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Rasmussen, Roy, Liu, Changhai, Ikeda, Kyoko, Dominguez, Francina. (2022). Multi-decadal Convection-permitting Simulation of Current Climate over South America using WRF. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/6XQW-ZB02. Accessed 28 January 2025.

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