Identification

Title

ICAR Downscaled Climate Data over the Western United States

Alternative title(s)

d010091

Abstract

<p>This dataset contains quasi-dynamically downscaled climate data from 8 global climate models from the CMIP5 archive. The data were downscaled using the Intermediate Complexity Atmospheric Research (ICAR Gutmann et al., 2016) model after bias correcting the GCM three dimensional atmospheric data to match the ERA-interim reanalysis climatology (Dee et al., 2011). ICAR was configured with the Thompson microphysics, a simple PBL parameterization based on YSU, the RRTMG longwave radiation and an empirical shortwave radiation scheme, the Noah-MP land surface model, the WRF-Lake model, the BMJ cumulus parameterization, and used linear mountain wave theory for upper level wind structures combined with an iterative scheme to remove vertical motion at the model top. The output from ICAR was adjusted to match the climatological statistics of the Livneh et al. (2015) observational dataset.</p>

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010091/

protocol: https

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d010091/dataaccess/

protocol: https

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2021-03-30

Keyword set

keyword value

CLIMATE MODELS > CLIMATE MODELS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-10-03

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1950

End position

2099

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2024-11-17

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research.

function: download

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-09T01:31:03Z

Metadata language