Raster Freezing and Thawing Degree-day Data for Alaska and Northwest Canada 1901-2100

Description

Annual freezing degree-day and thawing degree-day metrics for the state of Alaska and Northwest Canada. Degree-days were estimated using integration of a piecewise cubic hermite interpolating polynomial calculated from monthly data. Input monthly data from the Scenarios Network for Alaska + Arctic Planing, consisting of downscaled CRU TS 4.0 historic estimates of monthly temperature, were used for the period from 1901-2020, and downscaled CMIP5/AR5 projected estimates of monthly temperature were used from the period from 2006-2100. Thawing degree-days were calculated from 1901-2100, and freezing degree-days from 1901-2099.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P13QB93Y
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.677d4296d34e480c9507f9a7.xml

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  • environment
  • alaska
  • climatologymeteorologyatmosphere
  • usgs-677d4296d34e480c9507f9a7
  • thermokarst
  • geospatial-datasets
  • geoscientificinformation
  • climate
  • yukon-territory
  • climate-change
  • permafrost

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