NA-CORDEX Cloud-Optimized Dataset

The NA-CORDEX dataset contains output from high-resolution regional climate models run over North America using boundary conditions from global simulations in the CMIP5 archive.

The subset of the NA-CORDEX data on AWS (data volume ~15 TB) includes daily data from 1950-2100 for impacts-relevant variables on a 0.25 degree or 0.50 degree common lat-lon grid. This data is freely available on AWS S3 thanks to the AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative, which provide free storage and egress.

The data on AWS is stored in Zarr format. This format supports the same data model as netCDF and is well suited to object storage and distributed computing in the cloud using the Pangeo libraries in Python.

An Intake-ESM Catalog listing all available data can be found at: [https://ncar-na-cordex.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/catalogs/aws-na-cordex.json]

The full dataset (data volume ~35 TB) can be accessed for download or via web services on the NCAR Climate Data Gateway. [https://www.earthsystemgrid.org/search/cordexsearch.html]

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  • NA-CORDEX Help
    cisl-aws-na-cordex@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1951-01-01T00:00:00
    End:  2099-12-31T23:23:59

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1951-01-01T00:00:00
Temporal Range End 2099-12-31T23:23:59
Temporal Resolution Hourly, daily, monthly, seasonal, annual, monthly climatology, and seasonal climatology
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
25 km
0.25 degree
0.5 degree
Related Links

Related Software and Documentation : Jupyter Notebook, other documentation, and software tools by Brian Bonnlander, Seth McGinnis (NCAR)
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ZARR
Standardized Resource Format ZARR
Asset Size 14900000 MB
Legal Constraints

Standard NCAR/UCAR policy plus NA-CORDEX's Terms of Use (https://na-cordex.org/terms-use)
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name NA-CORDEX Help
Resource Support Email cisl-aws-na-cordex@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division
Distributor N/A
Metadata Contact Name NA-CORDEX Help
Metadata Contact Email cisl-aws-na-cordex@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization UCAR/NCAR - Computational & Information Systems Lab - Information Systems Division

Author Bonnlander, Brian
McGinnis, Seth
Banihirwe, Anderson
Nienhouse, Eric
de La Beaujardiere, Jeff
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - CISL
Publication Date 2021-04-15
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26024/9xkm-fp81
Alternate Identifier N/A
Resource Version 2.2
Topic Category N/A
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2023-09-10T01:45:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.cisl::na-cordex-aws
Metadata Language eng
Suggested Citation Bonnlander, Brian, McGinnis, Seth, Banihirwe, Anderson, Nienhouse, Eric, de La Beaujardiere, Jeff. (2021). NA-CORDEX Cloud-Optimized Dataset. 2.2. UCAR/NCAR - CISL. https://doi.org/10.26024/9xkm-fp81. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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