Published March 23, 2018
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A 30-year high resolution simulation of the ~1980-2010 climate over the Interior Western United States
Description
A high-resolution (4 km) regional climate simulation is conducted in the Interior Western United States (IWUS) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The IWUS simulation is convection permitting and uses the NoahMP land surface model. The model integration is conducted over a 30-year period from 1 October 1981 through 30 September 2011.
This repository contains a 30-year gridded dataset of daily precipitation, and daily minimum and maximum surface (2 m) temperature from the IWUS simulation. Anyone interested in the full dataset of the IWUS simulation is encouraged to contact the lead author at yongganga.wang@gmail.com.
Notes
This work was supported by the Wyoming EPSCoR, the Wyoming Water Development Commission, and the United States Geological Survey under the auspices of the University of Wyoming Water Research Program. The lead author was funded by the Texas Tech Research Assistant Professorship Initiative. We would like to acknowledge high-performance computing support from Yellowstone (http://n2t.net/ark:/85065/d7wd3xhc) provided by NCAR's Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
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- Wang, Y., B. Geerts, and C. Liu, 2018: A 30-year convection-permitting regional climate simulation over the Interior Western United States. Part I: validation. International Journal of Climatology, in press. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5527
- Jing, X., B. Geerts, Y. Wang, and C. Liu, 2017: Regional climate simulation of orographic precipitation in the Interior Western United States: comparisons with gauge and high-resolution gridded datasets. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18, 2541-2558. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0056.1