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

Note: ds612.5 CONUS (Continental U.S.) II High Resolution Present and Future Climate Simulation has superseded this dataset.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:  2000-10-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2013-09-30T23:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2000-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2013-09-30T23:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 57.3357
Bounding Box South Lat 18.1199
Bounding Box West Long -138.8524
Bounding Box East Long -58.7352
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 4000 m
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 192794528 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Rasmussen, Roy
Liu, Changhai
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
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 2024-08-04T02:12:04Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::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. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6V40SXP. Accessed 20 August 2025.

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