North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) Dataset

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.

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Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Seth McGinnis
    mcginnis@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division - RISC

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1970-12-01T00:00:00
    End:  2070-11-30T23:23:59

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1970-12-01T00:00:00
Temporal Range End 2070-11-30T23:23:59
Temporal Resolution 3-hourly
Bounding Box North Lat 75
Bounding Box South Lat 20
Bounding Box West Long -150
Bounding Box East Long -50
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 50 km
Related Links

NARCCAP Website : Website with supporting information about the project and the data archive
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NETCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 650 MB
Legal Constraints

Standard UCAR/NCAR policy plus NARCCAP's Terms of Use (http://www.narccap.ucar.edu/about/acknowledgements.html)
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Seth McGinnis
Resource Support Email mcginnis@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division - RISC
Distributor N/A
Metadata Contact Name Seth McGinnis
Metadata Contact Email mcginnis@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division - RISC

Author Mearns, Linda O.
McGinnis, Seth
Arritt, Raymond
Biner, Sebastien
Duffy, Phillip
Gutowski, William
Held, Isaac
Jones, Richard
Leung, Ruby
Nunes, Ana
Snyder, Mark
Caya, Daniel
Correia, James
Flory, David
Herzmann, Daryl
Laprise, Rene
Moufouma-Okia, Wilfran
Takle, Gene
Teng, Haiyan
Thompson, Josh
Tucker, Simon
Wyman, Bruce
Anitha, Anila
Buja, Lawrence
Macintosh, Christopher
McDaniel, Larry
O'Brien, Travis
Qian, Yun
Sloan, Lisa
Strand, Gary
Zoellick, Casey
Publisher UCAR/NCAR
Publication Date 2014-06-13
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN35ST
Alternate Identifier N/A
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category N/A
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2019-03-04T15:54:13
Metadata Record Identifier d1a9805b-3c69-11e9-bdef-b808cf016134
Metadata Language eng
Suggested Citation Mearns, Linda O. , McGinnis, Seth , Arritt, Raymond, Biner, Sebastien , Duffy, Phillip , Gutowski, William , Held, Isaac , Jones, Richard , Leung, Ruby , Nunes, Ana , Snyder, Mark , Caya, Daniel , Correia, James , Flory, David , Herzmann, Daryl , Laprise, Rene , Moufouma-Okia, Wilfran, Takle, Gene, Teng, Haiyan , Thompson, Josh , Tucker, Simon , Wyman, Bruce , Anitha, Anila , Buja, Lawrence , Macintosh, Christopher , McDaniel, Larry , O'Brien, Travis , Qian, Yun , Sloan, Lisa , Strand, Gary , Zoellick, Casey . (2014). North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) Dataset. UCAR/NCAR. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN35ST. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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