SnowClim: Pre-industrial Climate Data

This resource is part of the larger SnowClim Dataset (https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/acc4f39ad6924a78811750043d59e5d0/). This resource contains pre-industrial climate metrics. Climate metrics were created by first downscaling outputs of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF; Rasmussen and Liu, 2017) for the present-day period (1 Oct 2000 to 30 Sep 2013) using a combination of local lapse rates and terrain corrections for solar radiation as described in Lute et al., (in prep). Downscaled data was then perturbed by the multi-model mean delta from CMIP5 to create climate date reflecting pre-industrial conditions (1850-1879). Climate metrics are available on a ~210 m grid for the western United States in both netCDF and GeoTiff formats.

Additional information is available in:
Lute, A.C., Abatzoglou, J.T., and T. Link. “SnowClim: high resolution snow model and data for the Western United States.” In preparation for submission to Geoscientific Model Development.