Climate Forced Hydropower Simulations Using NASA NEX-GDDP

This dataset includes the results of simulations of future hydropower availability for power plants in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. These simulations have been forced using NASA's Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) dataset, which includes maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation simulations from 21 Global Climate Models (GCM) and three scenarios. The scenarios include a retrospective run (1950-2005) and two projection runs for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. There is a folder for each country that includes a power plant characteristics file, with a list of all the power plants and the characteristics used for the analysis (installed capacity, effective height, reservoir specifications, etc.). Additionally, there is a folder including the dates for the available capacity files. Each file inside the available capacity folder is labeled "power_", followed by the power plant name (e.g. "tres_irmaos"), and the scenario (e.g. "rcp45_2006_2099"). 

This work is based on the future publication: Caceres, A.L., Jaramillo, P., Matthews, H.S., Samaras, C. & Nijssen B.  "Hydropower under climate uncertainty: characterizing the usable capacity of Brazilian, Colombian and Peruvian power plants under climate scenarios".