AWESOME Climate Scenarios over the Nile River Basin

This record includes the climate data produced in the AWESOME project, downscaled/bias-adjusted over the Nile River Basin, considering the following temporal frames:

• control period CP: 1981-2005 (1983-2005 for temperature)
• future scenarios RCP2.6, 4.5, 8.5: 2006-2100, which rely on the IPCC 5th assessment (2014)

The Nile River Basin is subdivided into ten sub-basins, extracted from HydroBASINS (Lehner and Grill, 2013):

• Main Nile
• Atbara
• Blue Nile
• White Nile
• Baro-Akobo-Sobat
• Bahr El Jebel
• Bahr El Ghazal
• Lake Albert
• Victoria Nile
• Lake Victoria

The regional data are retrieved from CORDEX Africa 44° (models GCM: ICHEC-EC-EARTH; RCM: SMHI-RCA4), while the observation data are taken from CHIRPS and CHIRTS.

In particular, this record includes:

• the downscaled/bias-adjusted mean daily data of mean precipitation ‘pav’ [mm/d], mean temperature ‘tas’ [°C], minimum 'Tmin' and maximum temperatures 'Tmax', saved in .txt files (day, variable) aggregated over the 10 Nile main subbasins (.zip folder)
• the downscaled/bias-adjusted gridded daily data of mean precipitation ‘pav’ [mm/d], mean temperature ‘tas’ [°C] and extreme temperatures (‘tasmax’ and ‘tasmin’ [°C]), saved in .nc files (netcdf format) at high resolution (5°) for the 10 Nile main subbasins (link to the POLIMI-hosted server to access the data)
• Deliverable D2.2 Climate Scenarios, which reports on the climate scenarios developed for the project, including the analysis of downscaled climate change projections across the different spatial scales requested by the AWESOME modelling framework (PDF file).