CMIP5 MACAv2-METDATA Monthly Water Balance Model Projections 1950-2099 for the Contiguous United States
Description
We apply a monthly water-balance model (MWBM) to simulate components of the water balance for the period 1950-2099 under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 for the Contiguous United States. We use the statistically downscaled MACAv2-METDATA temperature and precipitation data from 20 General Circulation Models (GCMs) from the Climate Model Intercomparison Program Phase 5 (CMIP5) as input to the water balance model. This dataset supports the USGS National Climate Change Viewer.
The statistically downscaled dataset is:
MACAv2-METDATA: 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 page:
MACAv2-METDATA: http://maca.northwestknowledge.net
The 20 included GCMs are:
bcc-csm1-1-m, bcc-csm1-1, BNU-ESM, CanESM2, CCSM4, CNRM-CM5, CSIRO-Mk3-6-0, GFDL-ESM2G, GFDL-ESM2M, HadGEM2 CC365, HadGEM2-ES365, inmcm4,IPSL-CM5A-LR, IPSL CM5A-MR, IPSL-CM5B-LR, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC ESM CHEM, MRI-CGCM3, NorESM1-M
Resources
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Description |
Link |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9B2O22V |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.60b91238d34e86b9388a7b02.xml |
Tags
- environment
- effects-of-climate-change
- climatologymeteorologyatmosphere
- usgs-60b91238d34e86b9388a7b02
- hydrologic-processes
- evaporation
- macav2-metdata
- runoff
- snow-and-ice-cover
- soil-moisture