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
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 . (2014). North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) Dataset. UCAR/NCAR. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6RN35ST. Accessed 30 December 2025.

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