Published July 7, 2020 | Version v1
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A 30-year high resolution simulation of the future climate over the Interior Western United States

Authors/Creators

  • 1. State University of New York at Oswego
  • 2. University of Wyoming

Description

A high-resolution (4 km) convection-permitting regional climate simulation is conducted in the Interior Western United States (IWUS) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. The model integration is conducted over a 30-year period from October 1981 through September 2011, and over a 30-year future period centered at 2050 using the Pseudo–Global Warming (PGW) technique. The IWUS model output for the retrospective climate is available from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1157112.

This repository contains a 30-year gridded dataset of precipitation, surface (2 m) temperature, surface pressure, water vapor mixing ratio at 2 m, and 10 m wind speed at a daily frequency from the IWUS simulation of future climate centered at 2050. 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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References

  • 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, 38(9), 3684-3704. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5527
  • Jing, X., B. Geerts, Y. Wang, and C. Liu, 2019: Ambient factors controlling the wintertime precipitation distribution across mountain ranges in the interior western United States. Part II: changes in precipitation distribution in a warmer climate. J. Appl. Meteor. Climat., 58, 695-715. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-18-0173.1