Climate Forced Hydropower Simulations for the African Continent Using NASA NEX GDDP

This dataset includes the results of simulations of future hydropower usable capacity for power plants across the five African power pools. These include 87 power plants in 27 different countries. 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. We include a PDF file "Description of Data.pdf" that describes all the information included in the dataset. 

This work is based on the future publication: Caceres, A.L., Jaramillo, P., Matthews, H.S., Samaras, C, & Nijssen, Bart. "Power pools for the win: Assessing climate resilience of hydropower resources in African power pools".