Rainfall data from WRF simulations for the Atacama Desert for present and mid-Pliocene climate

We provide model output for rainfall from WRF experiments for the present-day and mid-Pliocene climate. These are netCDF files that contain processed data shown in figures of Reyers et al. (accepted). Details on the files and content are listed in the primary data information Reyers_et_al_primary_data_information.pdf Refer to Reyers et al. (2022) for the full information on the data production and interpretation.

This work used resources of the Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ) granted by its Scientific Steering Committee (WLA) under project ID bb1198. The research was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – Projektnummer 268236062 – SFB1211 "Earth-evolution at the dry limit" (https://sfb1211.uni-koeln.de/).

Reference

Reyers, M., Fiedler, S., Ludwig, P., Böhm, C., Wennrich, V., and Shao, Y.: On the importance of moisture conveyor belts from the tropical eastern Pacific for wetter conditions in the Atacama Desert during the mid-Pliocene, Clim. Past, 19, 517–532, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-517-2023, 2023.