Identification

Title

High-Resolution Climate Simulations Over Alaska - A Community Dataset, Version 2

Abstract

Weather and climate variability strongly influence the people, infrastructure and economy of Alaska. However, the sparse observational network in Alaska limits understanding of meteorological variability, particularly precipitation processes that influence the hydrologic cycle. Here a new 4-km resolution dataset for Alaska is made available to the community for investigating recent historical climate variability, and potential changes in the future. The dataset, generated with the Weather Research and Forecasting model, is useful for gaining insight into meteorological and hydrologic processes, and provides a baseline against which to measure future environmental change. The dataset may be particularly useful for applications that require high temporal frequency weather fields, such as driving hydrologic or glacier models. The historical fields, which span 14-years (September 2002-August 2016), are available to the community at hourly resolution for near surface (2-dimensional) fields and 6 hourly for the 3- dimensional atmosphere. Click 'download options' for a Readme file containing further information.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/dataset/id/22296f01-0994-11e7-beba-00c0f03d5b7c.html

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name: High-Resolution Climate Simulations Over Alaska - A Community Dataset, Version 2

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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

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

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North bounding latitude

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Temporal reference

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Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-08-07

date type

modified

effective date

2019-08-29

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Use constraints

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Applications Laboratory

email address

anewman@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

email address

esg-support@earthsystemgrid.org

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-08-21T13:44:04Z

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