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Dataset: snow_LOCA_CanESM2_rcp85_r1i1p1_195001-209912.nc
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  • summary: Climate change information simulated by global climate models is downscaled using statistical methods to translate spatially course regional projections to finer resolutions needed by researchers and managers to assess local climate impacts. Several statistical downscaling methods have been developed over the past fifteen years, resulting in multiple datasets derived by different methods. We apply a simple monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to demonstrate how the differences among these datasets result in disparate projections of snow loss and future changes in runoff. We apply the MWBM to six statistically downscaled datasets for 14 general circulation models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) for the RCP 8.5 emission scenario (1950 - 2099). The statistically downscaled datasets are as follows: BCCA: Bias Corrected Constructed Analogs (Reclamation, 2013); BCSD-C: Bias Corrected Spatial Disaggregation (Reclamation, 2013); BCSD-F: Bias Corrected Spatial Disaggregation (Thrasher et al., 2013); LOCA: Localized Constructed Analogs (Pierce et al., 2014); MACA-L: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou & Brown, 2012, bias corrected by Livneh et al., 2013); MACA-M: Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (Abatzoglou & Brown, 2012, bias corrected by METDATA, Abatzoglou, 2013); Users interested in the downscaled temperature and precipitation files are referred to the dataset home pages: BCCA, BCSD-C: http://gdo-dcp.ucllnl.org/downscaled_cmip_projections/dcpInterface.html BCSD-F: https://cds.nccs.nasa.gov/nex/ LOCA: http://loca.ucsd.edu/ MACA-L, MACA-M: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net The GCMs are the following: bcc-csm1-1, CanESM2, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, inmcm4, IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL-CM5A-MR, MIROC-ESM, MIROC-ESM-CHEM, MIROC5, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M
  • reference: BCCA (Maurer, E. P., Wood, A. W., Adam, J. C., Lettenmaier, D. P., & Nijssen, B. (2002). A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States. J. Climate, 15(22), 3237–3251. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3237:ALTHBD>2.0.CO;2)
  • reference: BCSD-C (Maurer, E. P., Wood, A. W., Adam, J. C., Lettenmaier, D. P., & Nijssen, B. (2002). A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States. J. Climate, 15(22), 3237–3251. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3237:ALTHBD>2.0.CO;2)
  • reference: BCSD-F (Thrasher, B., Xiong, J., Wang, W., Melton, F., Michaelis, A., & Nemani, R. (2013). Downscaled Climate Projections Suitable for Resource Management. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 94(37), 321–323. https://doi.org/10.1002/2013EO370002)
  • reference: LOCA (Pierce, D. W., Thrasher, B. L., & Cayan, D. R. (2014). Statistical Downscaling Using Localized Constructed Analogs (LOCA). Journal of Hydrometeorology, 15(6), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0082.1)
  • reference: MACA (Abatzoglou, J.T. and Brown T.J. (2012). A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications. International Journal of Climatology, 32(5), 772–780. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.2312)
  • rights: Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data on any other system or for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.
  • https://doi.org/10.5066/P9O9EB1C

Keywords:

  • : BCSD
  • : BCCA
  • : LOCA
  • : MACA
  • : snow water equivalent
  • : runoff
  • : hydrologic processes
  • : snow and ice cover
  • : effects of climate change
  • : numerical modeling

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  • Longitude: -125.969 to -66.031195 degrees_east
  • Latitude: 23.4062 to 53.968799 degrees_north

TimeCoverage:

  • Start: 1950-01-01
  • End: 2099-12-31
  • Duration: 149.99 years
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