Intermediate data belonging to "Process-based climate change assessment for European winds using EURO-CORDEX and global models"

This dataset contains the intermediate results of Wohland (2022) that are needed to redo the analysis und produce the figures. It allows to bypass those steps that rely on access to the supercomputers at the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ). When using this data in academic work, please reference

Jan Wohland, Process-based climate change assessment for European winds using EURO-CORDEX and global models, Environmental Research Letters (provisionally accepted on 28/11/2022), 2022

Using this data to reproduce results

The data can be used together with the code provided in https://github.com/jwohland/kliwist_modelchain

In the above mentioned github repository, there is a `run_all.py` script that repeats the analysis presented in Wohland (2022). After downloading and extracting this data, you can ignore the steps under "calculations", and begin with "plots".

Underlying data

The dataset draws on output from the CMIP5, CMIP6 and EURO-CORDEX initiatives. I thank the climate modeling groups for making their data openly available. In particular, I acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme’s Working Group on Regional Climate, and the Working Group on Coupled Modelling, former coordinating body of CORDEX and responsible panel for CMIP5. I also acknowledge the Earth System Grid Federation infrastructure an international effort led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, the European Network for Earth System Modelling and other partners in the Global Organisation for Earth System Science Portals (GO-ESSP). I also acknowledge the World Climate Research Programme, which, through its Working Group on Coupled Modelling, coordinated and promoted CMIP5 and CMIP6.

Funding

This work is part of the project "The influence of climate change on wind energy site assessments – KliWiSt" funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK).

References to raw data journal articles

Jacob, D. et al. EURO-CORDEX: new high-resolution climate change projections for European impact research. Reg Environ Change 14, 563–578 (2014).

Taylor, K. E., Stouffer, R. J. & Meehl, G. A. An Overview of CMIP5 and the Experiment Design. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 93, 485–498 (2012).

Hurtt, G. C. et al. Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands. Climatic Change 109, 117–161 (2011).