NA-CORDEX Cloud-Optimized Dataset
The NA-CORDEX dataset contains output from high-resolution regional climate models run over North America using boundary conditions from global simulations in the CMIP5 archive. The subset of the NA-CORDEX data on AWS (data volume ~15 TB) includes daily data from 1950-2100 for impacts-relevant variables on a 0.25 degree or 0.50 degree common lat-lon grid. This data is freely available on AWS S3 thanks to the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, which provide free storage and egress. The data on AWS is stored in Zarr format. This format supports the same data model as netCDF and is well suited to object storage and distributed computing in the cloud using the Pangeo libraries in Python. An Intake-ESM Catalog listing all available data can be found at: [https://ncar-na-cordex.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/catalogs/aws-na-cordex.json] The full dataset (data volume ~35 TB) can be accessed for download or via web services on the NCAR Climate Data Gateway. [https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/search/cordexsearch.html]
dataset
eng
Dataset
publication
2019-02-27
Cloud-Hosted
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA
UCAR/NCAR > National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > U/V WIND COMPONENTS
EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY > SPECIFIC HUMIDITY
revision
2019-02-25
-150
-50
75
20
1951-01-01T00:00:00
2099-12-31T23:23:59
publication
2021-04-15
ZARR
Standard NCAR/UCAR policy plus NA-CORDEX's Terms of Use (https://na-cordex.org/terms-use)
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UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division
pointOfContact
UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division
pointOfContact
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