High Resolution WRF Simulations of the Current and Future Climate of North America

Note: d559000 Four-kilometer long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the conterminous United States (CONUS) has superseded this dataset.

The dataset is from a high resolution climate change simulation that permits convection and resolves mesoscale orography at 4 km grid spacing over much of North America using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. Two 13 years simulations were performed, consisting of a retrospective simulation (October 2000 to September 2013) with initial and boundary conditions from ERA-Interim and a future climate sensitivity simulation with initial and boundary conditions derived from reanalysis and modified by adding the CMIP5 ensemble mean of the high emission scenario climate change.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2000-10-01T0000+00
    End:  2013-09-30T2300+00

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2000-10-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2013-09-30T2300+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 57.3357508613712
Bounding Box South Lat 18.120000000000005
Bounding Box West Long -138.85243612501154
Bounding Box East Long -58.73525958837172
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 4000.0 m
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 0 MB
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Author Rasmussen, Roy
Liu, Changhai
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2017-02-01
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V40SXP
Alternate Identifier d612000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-17T04:05:23Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d612000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Rasmussen, Roy, Liu, Changhai. (2017). High Resolution WRF Simulations of the Current and Future Climate of North America. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V40SXP. Accessed 24 October 2025.

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