5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559 Dr. Olusegun, Christiana Funmilola Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Post Doctoral Germany christiana.olusegun@kit.edu 2017-03-21T23:16:25 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Daily Outputs of Near-Surface Air Temperature from the Low Resolution (60km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project) 2016-10-18T11:30:00 Low resolution (60km) regional climate simulations were carried out by researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) as part of the West Africa Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Project. One of the goals of the WASCAL project is to provide the best accuracy in regional climate simulations over the entire West Africa region for a large proportion of the 21st century. The regional climate model employed in the project was the Weather Research and Forecasting Model version 3.5.1 (WRFv3.5.1) forced by three global circulation models (GCMs) under the Representative Concentrative Pathways 4.5 (RCP 4.5). The forcing GCMs are: the Max Planck Institute Earth System Model (MPI-ESM-MR, Stevens et al. 2013), the General Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Earth System Model (GFDL-ESM2M, Dunne et al. 2012), and the Hadley Global Environment Model (HadGEM2-ES, Collins et al. 2011). Further control runs with ERA- Interim reanalysis products (Dee et al. 2011) were also carried out for model verification and bias correction. Therefore, daily outputs of near-surface air temperature, obtained from the 3-hourly simulations of WRFv3.5.1, driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis, are hereby presented. Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus Dr. Olusegun, Christiana Dr. Olusegun, Christiana Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) Post Doctoral christiana.olusegun@kit.edu chrystali2002@gmail.com https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) Senior Scientist Garmisch Garmisch-Partenkirchen 82467 Germany dominikus.heinzeller@kit.edu https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60_tas_1980.gif Mean daily near surface air temperature for the year 1980 from WRF-ERA-Interim simulations at 60 km resolution. Units= Kelvin gif GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet near-surface air temperature WRF-ERAInterim Western Africa Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions Publication in progress. Currently, download is only allowed to registered members of WASCAL, including Graduate Studies Program, CoC staff members, and partners of affiliated research programs as far as authorized by the WASCAL headquarter. Account in the Data Portal is required for download. Use restrictions are: - The Data must not be re-distributed to unauthorized persons as defined by the Data Provider; - The Data can be copied and processed to create derivations by the authorized persons; - If publication results from using the Data the user agrees to cite the Data Provider and/or give credit to the Data Provider, or, as scientifically appropriate, provide co-authorship to the Data Provider based on any direct contribution s/he may make to the research; Citation: Heinzeller, D., Olusegun, C., Kunstmann, H. (2016): Daily Outputs of Near-Surface Air Temperature from the Low Resolution (60km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -34.3 34.3 -14.9 33.8 1980-01-01T00:00:00 2010-01-31T00:00:00 1 WRFV3.5.1 model configuration for West Africa is the same as Klein et al. 2015. Variable naming convention: tas=near surface air temperature File naming convention: waXXclmN_model_scenario_variable_YYYYstart_YYYYend.nc for resolution XX in km and for all streams. Example 60km resolution: wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1980_1985.nc The landmask file is time independent. Land binary mask (1 for land, 0 for water) from WRFv3.5.1 simulations forced with ERA-Interim reanalysis at 60 km resolution. File name is wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc NETCDF version 4 Dr. Olusegun, Christiana Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) christiana.olusegun@kit.edu chrystali2002@gmail.com Contact processor by email to get the permission for accessing the data (resource) https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc Output landmask https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1980_1985.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1980_1985.nc Output 1980-1985 https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1986_1990.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1986_1990.nc Output 1986-1990 https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1991_1995.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1991_1995.nc Output 1991-1995 https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1996_2000.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_1996_2000.nc Output 1996-2000 https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_2001_2005.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_2001_2005.nc Output 2001-2005 https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=5645b6f0-4899-448b-8578-edb6cb4b1559&fname=wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_2006_2010.nc&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download wa60clmN_eraint_ctrl_tas_2006_2010.nc Output 2006-2010 The model simulations starts in 1979 and run for 32 years at 3 hourly time step.Therefore, the daily mean of near surface air temperature was extracted for the purpose of distribution. The first year of all simulations was discarded as model spin-up while the last 30 to 31 years were made available for further analysis.