Identification

Title

North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) Dataset

Abstract

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.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-02-27

Keyword set

keyword value

CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA

UCAR/NCAR > National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > HEAT FLUX

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION

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

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > SKIN TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > SPECIFIC HUMIDITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > LAYERED PRECIPITABLE WATER

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR PROCESSES > EVAPORATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION PROFILES > LATENT HEAT FLUX

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SOLID PRECIPITATION > CONVECTIVE SURFACE PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT

EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW MELT

EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2019-02-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-150

East bounding longitude

-50

North bounding latitude

75

South bounding latitude

20

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1970-12-01T00:00:00

End position

2070-11-30T23:23:59

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-06-13

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

NETCDF

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Standard UCAR/NCAR policy plus NARCCAP's Terms of Use (http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/about/acknowledgements.html)

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division - RISC

email address

mcginnis@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division - RISC

email address

mcginnis@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-04T15:54:13

Metadata language