Identification

Title

Multi-decadal historical regional hydroclimate simulation with two mid 21st century Pseudo-Global Warming futures over Alaska and the Yukon at 4 km resolution

Alternative title(s)

d614000

Abstract

Hydroclimate and terrestrial hydrology greatly influence the local communities, ecosystems, and economies across Alaska and Yukon River Basin. Therefore, we utilized the Regional Arctic Systems Model (RASM) to model the coupled land-atmosphere, and generated a climate and hydrology dataset at 4-km grid spacing to improve our understanding of the regional hydroclimate and terrestrial hydrology. Our model domain encompasses all of the U.S. State of Alaska, the entire Yukon River Basin, part of Western Canada, and the eastern coastal region of Russia. This dataset includes 1) one simulation of the historical climate (Water Years 1991-2021), which serves as a benchmark for climate change studies, and 2) two future simulations (Equivalent Water Years 2035-2065) using the Pseudo-Global Warming method under future greenhouse gas emission scenario SSP2-4.5. The two future scenarios represent median and high changes derived from ensemble means across different Global Climate Models in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 within SSP2-4.5 respectively. The microphysics schemes in the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) atmospheric model were manually tuned for optimal model performance. The land component in RASM was replaced using the Community Terrestrial Systems Model (CTSM) given its comprehensive process representations for cold regions. We conducted optimization for uncoupled CTSM to improve its performance in terrestrial hydrologic simulations, especially streamflow and snow (Cheng et al., 2023). In order to maintain the quality for both hydroclimate and terrestrial hydrologic simulation, we implemented a strategy of iterative testing and re-optimization of CTSM. This dataset was then generated using RASM with optimized CTSM parameters and manually tuned WRF microphysics. The historical simulation was evaluated against multiple observational datasets for five key weather variables and hydrologic fluxes, including precipitation, air temperature, snow fraction, evaporation-to-precipitation ratios, and streamflow. The evaluation details can be found in Cheng et al. (2024).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d614000/

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https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d614000/dataaccess/

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Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

CLIMATE MODELS > CLIMATE MODELS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-12-17

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE INDICATORS > FRESHWATER RUNOFF

EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > GROUND WATER > GROUND WATER PROCESSES/MEASUREMENTS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-12-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-175.789

East bounding longitude

-107.8964

North bounding latitude

75.8008

South bounding latitude

49.6254

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1990-10-01T00:00:00Z

End position

2065-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2024-02-29

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

jgum@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NCAR Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

rdahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://rda.ucar.edu/

name: NCAR Research Data Archive

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Metadata date

2025-01-07T12:05:02Z

Metadata language