Seasonal Average Minimum Daily Temperature (2041-2070) from CCSM-driven WRFG

Feb 15, 2012 (Last modified Oct 18, 2014)
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NARCCAP:  http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/

The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) is an international program that will serve the climate scenario needs of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico. NARCCAP is systematically investigating the uncertainties in future climate projections on the regional level. NARCCAP closely matches the regional climate models (RCMs) with multiple atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) along with the A2 scenario from the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) over an area covering most of North America. NARCCAP also validates the regional climate model performance by driving the RCMs with reanalyses, which is similar to driving the models with observations. The basic spatial resolution of the RCMs is 50 kilometers. This program includes RCMs that were used in the European PRUDENCE program (HadRM3 and RegCM), the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) as well as the NCEP regional spectral model (RSM), MM5, and the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF).

AOGCMs being used include the Hadley Centre HadCM3, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) CCSM, the Canadian CGCM3 and the GFDL model. The resulting climate model runs form the basis for multiple high-resolution climate scenarios that can be used in climate change impact assessments in North America. NARCCAP also produces high-resolution global time slice experiments based on the GFDL atmospheric model and the NCAR atmospheric model (CAM3). They are compared with runs of the regional models.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Canadian consortium OURANOS provided initial funding for the program.
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The major collaborators on NARCCAP are:

  • NCAR: Linda O. Mearns, Seth McGinnis, Melissa Bukovsky, 
    Larry McDaniel, Don Middleton, Doug Nychka, Steve Sain
  • ISU: Ray Arritt, William Gutowski, Dave Flory, Gene Takle
  • OURANOS: Daniel Caya, Sebastien Biner
  • LLNL: Phil Duffy, Dave Bader
  • GFDL: Isaac Held
  • Hadley Centre: Richard Jones, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia
  • UQAM: Rene Laprise
  • PNNL: Ruby Leung, Yun Qian
  • Scripps: Ana Nunes (now at UFRJ), John Roads (Deceased)
  • UC Santa Cruz: Lisa Sloan, Mark Snyder
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January 2041 - October 2070
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When publishing results based on NARCCAP data, please also include a citation for the dataset itself, such as the following:

Mearns, L.O., et al., 2007, updated 2011. The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program dataset, National Center for Atmospheric Research Earth System Grid data portal, Boulder, CO. Data downloaded 2012-03-06. 
[http://www.earthsystemgrid.org/project/NARCCAP.html]

(This citation is based on the AMS citation form; for other formats, see the explanation of citation structure on the citation page.)

The fundamental paper about NARCCAP to cite is:

Mearns, L. O., W. J. Gutowski, R. Jones, L.-Y. Leung, S. McGinnis, A. M. B. Nunes, and Y. Qian: A regional climate change assessment program for North America. EOS, Vol. 90, No. 36, 8 September 2009, pp. 311-312.

URL: http://www.agu.org/pubs/eos/eo0936.shtml
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50km x 50km
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 National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
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