Building a climate service for North America based on the NA-CORDEX data archive

• Main Authors: Seth McGinnis, Linda Mearns
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
• Series: Climate Services
• Subjects: Climate change; Regional climate modeling; Dynamical downscaling; CORDEX; North America; Climate impacts
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880721000212

The NA-CORDEX data archive contains output from regional climate models run over a domain covering most of North America using boundary conditions from reanalyses and global climate model simulations in the CMIP5 archive. These simulations run from 1950 to 2100 with a spatial resolution of 0.22°/25 km or 0.44°/50 km. Data is available for impacts-relevant variables at daily and longer frequencies in CF-compliant netCDF format. Five of the major variables used by impacts researchers as well as decision makers have also been bias-corrected so that the data can be correctly used for impacts research and stakeholder decision-making. This archive of CORDEX regional simulation outputs for North America makes up the core data element in a climate service that supports appropriate use of these data in climate impacts research and decision-making.