Projected Future (2020-2049): High Resolution (12km) WRF-HADGEM2 Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air Temperature over West Africa, (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, daily outputs of minimum near-surface air temperature, obtained from the 3-hourly simulations of WRFv3.5.1, driven by HadGEM2-ES, are hereby presented.

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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
  • minimum near-surface air temperature
  • WRF-HADGEM2
Region
  • Western Africa
Place
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Publication in progress.

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- 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;

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Citation: Heinzeller, D., Olusegun, C., Kunstmann, H. (2016): Projected Future (2020-2049):High Resolution (12km) WRF-HADGEM2 Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air Temperature over West Africa, (WASCAL Project). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=871544bd-0bcc-4751-8923-972d603e6de1

Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2020-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2049-12-31T00:00:00
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_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2020.nc

The landmask file is time independent. Land binary mask (1 for land, 0 for water) from WRFv3.5.1 simulations forced with HADGEM2-ES at 12 km resolution. File name is wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_sftlf_2019-01.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 )

Distributor

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)
Transfer size
180 MB each file
OnLine resource
wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2020.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2020

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2021.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2021

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2022.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2022

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2023.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2023

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2024.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2024

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2025.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2025

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2026.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2026

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2027.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2027

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2028.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2028

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2029.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2029

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2030.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2030

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2031.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2031

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2032.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2032

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2033.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2033

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2034.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2034

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2035.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2035

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2036.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2036

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2037.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2037

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2038.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2038

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2039.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2039

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2040.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2040

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2041.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2041

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2042.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2042

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2043.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2043

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2044.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2044

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2045.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2045

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2046.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2046

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2047.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2047

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2048.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2048

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_tasmin_2049.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2049

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wa12clmN_hadgem2_rcp45_sftlf_2019-01.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output landmask.

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Dataset
Statement
The model simulations starts in 2019 and run for 31 years at 3 hourly time step.Therefore, the daily mean of minimum 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 years were made available for further analysis.
File identifier
871544bd-0bcc-4751-8923-972d603e6de1 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-02-27T10:21:55
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Processor
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Olusegun, Christiana Funmilola, PhD ( Post Doctoral )
Germany
http://www.imk-ifu.kit.edu/
 
 

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Daily minimum near-surface air temperature, 2020-01-01

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WRF-HADGEM2 minimum near-surface air temperature

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