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Published February 11, 2019 | Version v1.0
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Downscaled 20CRv2c (#37) gridded historical climate data over China (1851-2010)

Creators

  • 1. Met Office
  • 2. University of Exeter
  • 3. Met Office; University of Oxford

Description

Gridded historical climate data over China, spanning 1851 to 2010. Dynamically downscaled to 25km resolution using the PRECIS2.0 (HadRM3P) Met Office regional climate model, driven by 20th century reanalysis (20CRv2c, NOAA/ESRL PSD 20th Century Reanalysis version 2c, ensemble member 37).

This data has been un-rotated to true latitude longitude coordinates from its original rotate pole frame of reference. For more information on the PRECIS regional climate model, visit www.metoffice.gov.uk/precis. Data near the boundaries should be used with caution due to model configuration aspects of regional climate modelling, and the interpolation method applied.

Domain: 17N to 58.84N, 73E to 135.7E

Countries covered: China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgzstan, and northern parts of India, Myanmar, Lao PDR & Vietnam.

Variables: pr (mean precipitation flux), tm (mean surface temperature), tn (minimum surface temperature) & tx (maximum surface temperature)

Time averaging: monthly

 

This data set supplements the equivalent downscaled ERA-Interim data set: Downscaled ERA-Interim gridded historical climate data over China (1980-2010) doi: 10.5281/zenodo.2600192

Notes

This work and its authors were supported by the UK-China Research & Innovation Partnership Fund through the Met Office Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) China as part of the Newton Fund.

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Is cited by
Journal article: 10.1175/JAMC-D-19-0083.1 (DOI)
Is supplement to
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.2600192 (DOI)

References

  • Amato, R., Steptoe, H., Buonomo, E., & Jones, R. (2019). High-Resolution History: Downscaling China's Climate from the 20CRv2c Reanalysis, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 58(10), 2141-2157