Daily Outputs for TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation of the High Resolution (12km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-GFDL) over West Africa, 1980 - 2009 (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, de-accumulated daily outputs of TOA incident shortwave radiation, obtained from the 3-hourly simulations of WRFv3.5.1, driven by GFDL-ESM2M, 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
  • TOA incident shortwave radiation
  • WRF-GFDL
Region
  • Western Africa
Place
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Citation: Heinzeller, D., Olusegun, C., Kunstmann, H. (2017): Daily Outputs for TOA Incident Shortwave Radiation of the High Resolution (12km) Regional Climate Model Simulations (WRF-GFDL) over West Africa, 1980 - 2009 (WASCAL Project). https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=adbeeec7-bdd0-4013-8ee0-7ca73ff618b7

Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1980-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2009-12-31T00:00:00
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_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1980.nc

The landmask file is time independent. Land binary mask (1 for land, 0 for water). File name is wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_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 )

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)
Units of distribution
megabyte per file
Transfer size
180
OnLine resource
wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1980.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1980

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1981.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1981

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1982.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1982

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1983.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1983

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1984.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1984

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1985.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1985

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1986.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1986

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1987.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1987

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1988.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1988

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1989.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1989

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1990.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1990

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1991.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1991

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1992.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1992

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1993.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1993

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1994.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1994

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1995.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1995

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1996.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1996

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1997.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1997

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1998.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1998

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_1999.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 1999

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2000.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2000

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2001.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2001

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2002.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2002

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2003.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2003

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2004.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2004

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_rsdt_2005.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2005

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_rcp45_rsdt_2006.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2006

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_rcp45_rsdt_2007.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2007

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_rcp45_rsdt_2008.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2008

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_rcp45_rsdt_2009.nc4 ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output 2009

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wa12clmN_gfdlesm_hist_sftlf_1989-01.nc ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Output landmask

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Dataset
File identifier
adbeeec7-bdd0-4013-8ee0-7ca73ff618b7 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2017-06-22T10:56:58
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 TOA incident shortwave radiation, 1980-01-01 (Units: J m-2 d-1)

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TOA incident shortwave radiation WRF-GFDL

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