Identification

Title

The East African Great Lake Environments (EAGLE) Climate Downscaling Dataset

Abstract

The East African Great Lake Environments (EAGLE) climate downscaling dataset was created to provide a high-resolution depiction of present and future climate scenarios in the EAGLE region, in order to serve the needs of a wide range of stakeholders who are interested in the potential socio-ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate change. Due to limited funds and a fixed amount of computational resources, rather than performing continuous century-scale model runs, three decadal time periods were simulated: present day (2009-2018), mid-century (2055-2064), and end-of-century (2090-2099.) The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model was used to dynamically downscale the National Center for Atmospheric Research's (NCAR's) Community Earth System Model (CESM) input using Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 8.5 for future climate, and RCP 4.5 for present day. A 10 km spatial resolution was used for the outer domain, and convection-permitting resolution of 3.33 km on the inner domain. The resulting output data set consists of thirty-nine different fields, with hourly resolution on the inner domain, and 6-hourly on the outer. To optimize the model configuration for this location and climate, before the full simulations were done, a series of 18 sensitivity tests were performed, comparing model output with observations. The full simulation data files are available to anyone who wants access to them at NCAR's Climate Data Gateway at https://dx.doi.org/10.26024/mahn-2660

Resource type

document

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

https://n2t.org/ark:/85065/d7h41vpv

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Text

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keyword set

keyword value

Coupled climate models

Socioeconomics

Precipitation amount

Land surface models

Convective precipitation

Scenario planning

Lakes/reservoirs

Humidity mixing ratio

Surface pressure

Precipitation trends

Wind speed

Climate adaptation

Temperature trends

Weather research/forecast models

Shortwave radiation

Water temperature

Air temperature

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-09-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-05-20T00:00:00Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Copyright Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

OpenSky Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Library

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

opensky@ucar.edu

web address

http://opensky.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-07-11T19:19:00.786432

Metadata language