California's Drought of the Future: A Prospective Look at the 2012-2017 Drought

This is the regrided datasets for the "California’s Drought of the Future: A Prospective Look at the 2012-2017 Drought" paper submitted to the Earth's Future. If you have any question, please contact Zexuan Xu (zexuanxu@lbl.gov) or Paul Ullrich (paullrich@ucdavis.edu)

1) Data Inventory:

WRF9_HIST_CLM_dailyavg.nc: Daily average historical simulation outputs from June 1, 2012 to September 30, 2017

WRF9_PROJ_CLM_dailyavg.nc: Daily average projection simulation outputs from June 1, 2042 to September 30, 2047

WRF9_STATIC.nc: Some static variables, including PHIS, LU_INDEX, VEGFRA, XLAT,  XLON and ALBBCK.

All datasets are regrided to 1/12 degree (~ 9km), within from 32.5 N to 42 N in latitude (115 cells in north-south), and 124.5 W to 114.5 W in longitude (121 cells in east-west). 

2) Variables

The WRF output variable names are used here, which are different from the CESM/CLM standard output variable names. For a complete list of WRF output variables, please refer to: http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/docs/user_guide_V3.8/users_guide_chap5.htm

A short list of variable names:

ALBEDO: Albedo

ALBBCK: Background albedo

EMISS: Surface emissivity

GLW: Downward long wave flux at ground surface (W m-2)

GRDFLX: Ground heat flux (W m-2)

HFX: Upward heat flux at the surface (W m-2)

LH: Latent heat flux at the surface (W m-2)

LU_INDEX: Land use category

PHIS: Terrain height (m)

PRECT: Total precipitation (mm/day)

PSFC: SFC pressure (Pa)

Q2: QV at 2-meter surface (kg kg-1)

QFX: Upward moisture flux at the surface (mm/day)

PRECT: Total precipitation (mm/day)

SFROFF: Surface runoff (mm/day)

SNOW: Snow water equivalent (mm)

SNOWNC: Snowfall, total grid scale snow and ice (mm/day)

SMOIS: Soil moisture (m3 m-3)

SMOIS_TOP: Soil moisture on the top layer (m3 m-3) 

SWDOWN: Downward short wave flux at ground surface (W m-2)

TSK: Surface skin temperature (K)

T2: Daily average two-meter surface temperature (K)

T2D: Daily average tw-meter dew point temperature (K)

T2MAX: Daily maximum two-meter surface temperature (K)

T2MIN: Daily minimum two-meter surface temperature (K) 

U10: U at 10 m (m s-1)

V10: V at 10 m (m s-1)

VEGFRA:  Vegetation fraction

XLAT: latitude, south is negative (degree_north)

XLONG: longitude, west is negative (degree_east)