Daily Outputs of Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature from the High Resolution (12km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project)

High resolution (12km) regional climate simulations were carried out by the researchers at 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, the daily outputs of maximum near-surface air temperature, obtained from the 3-hourly simulations of WRFv3.5.1, driven by ERA-Interim reanalysis, are hereby presented.

Date (Creation): 2016-10-18T11:30:00

Presentation form: Digital model

Credit: Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus

Credit: Dr. Olusegun, Christiana

Status: On going

Processor

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Olusegun, Christiana ( Post Doctoral )

http://www.imk.kit.edu/english/

Originator

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Heinzeller, Dominikus ( Senior Scientist )

Garmisch , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , 82467 , Germany

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Theme

maximum near-surface air temperature
WRF-ERAInterim

Region

Western Africa

Place

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Citation: Heinzeller, D., Olusegun, C., Kunstmann, H. (2016): Daily Outputs of Maximum Near-Surface Air Temperature from the High Resolution (12km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-ERAInterim) over West Africa, 1980 - 2010 (WASCAL Project). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=653edc43-3f5a-40b3-9676-afb0ae11fca7

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1980-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2010-01-31T00:00:00

Supplemental Information: WRFV3.5.1 model configuration for West Africa is the same as Klein et al. 2015.

File naming convention: waXXclmN_model_scenario_variable_YYYY.nc for resolution XX in km and for all streams.

Example 12km resolution: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1980.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 12 km resolution. File name is wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc

Reference system identifier: EPSG / 3857

Number of dimensions: 3

Dimension name: Column

Dimension size: 282

Dimension name: Row

Dimension size: 455

Resolution: 12 km

Cell geometry: Area

Transformation parameter availability: No

Distribution format

NETCDF ( version 4 )

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Processor

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT/IMK-IFU) - Dr. Olusegun Christiana

Ordering instructions: Contact processor by email to get the permission for accessing the data (resource)

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1980.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1980

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1981.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1981

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1982.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1982

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1983.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1983

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1984.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1984

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1985.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1985

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1986.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1986

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1987.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1987

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1988.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1988

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1989-.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1989

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1990-.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1990

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1991.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1991

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1992.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1992

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1993.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1993

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1994.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1994

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1995.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1995

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1996.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1996

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1997.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1997

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1998.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1998

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_1999.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 1999

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2000.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2000

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2001.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2001

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2002.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2002

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2003.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2003

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2004.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2004

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2005.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2005

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2006.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2006

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2007.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2007

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2008.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2008

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2009.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2009

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_tasmax_2010.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output 2010

OnLine resource: wa12clmN_eraint_ctrl_sftlf_1989-01.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Output landmask

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: The model simulations starts in 1979 and run for 32 years at 3 hourly time step.Therefore, the daily mean of maximum near-surface air temperature were 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.

File identifier: 653edc43-3f5a-40b3-9676-afb0ae11fca7 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Date stamp: 2017-02-23T16:28:46

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Author

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Olusegun, Christiana Funmilola, PhD ( Post Doctoral )

Germany

http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/

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Figure 1:Daily maximum near-surface temperature, 1980-01-01

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