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Variables (AR5) – Legacy

Weather variables (AR5) – Legacy

A global dataset at 0.25° degrees resolution of 6 weather variables from 21 climate models under 2 Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) scenarios from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fith Assessment report (AR5). The time resolution is daily from 1951 to 2100.

Specifications

SpecificationDescription
ExperimentCMIP5
ScenariosRepresentative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) RCP 8.5 and RCP4.5.
Climate ModelsThe 4 models selected by the ISIMIP initiative:
GFDL- ESM2M, IPSL-CM5A-LR, HadGEM2-ES and MIROC5.
Spatial Resolution0.25° x 0.25° Global
Temporal resolutionDaily from 1951 to 2100
VariablesMean temperature
Maximum temperature
Minimum temperature
Total precipitation
Surface wind speed
Solar radiation
FormatNetcdf

Reference

  • Noël, T., Loukos, H., Defrance, D., Vrac, M., Levavasseur, G., 2021. A high-resolution downscaled CMIP5 projections dataset of essential surface climate variables over the globe coherent with the ERA5 reanalysis for climate change impact assessments. Data in Brief 45, 106900. DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.106900.

Availability

This data dataset is no longer available except for public research directly from the ESGF IPCC data portal.

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