Model simulation data for the climate impacts of large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara and the world's deserts

<br>This is the model simulation data for paper by Yan Li, Eugenia Kalnay, Safa Motesharrei, Jorge Rivas, Fred Kucharski, Daniel Kirk-Davidoff, Eviatar Bach, and Ning Zeng "Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara increase rain and vegetation" in Science, 2018. DOI: 10.1126/science.aar5629<br><br><br>File description:<br>1. The "experiment_diff" folderThis folder includes data for the climate impacts of different wind and solar farms experiments. The impacts are the differences in climate averaged from 1951 to 2010. These experiments include:<br><b>ExpWind0</b>: impacts of wind farm in the Sahara<b>ExpSolar0</b>: impacts of solar farm in the Sahara<b>ExpWindSolar0</b>: impacts of wind and solar farms in the Sahara<br><b>ExpWindG</b>: impacts of wind farm in the global desert <b>ExpSolarG</b>: impacts of solar farm in the global desert <b>ExpWindSolarG</b>: impacts of wind and solar farms in the global desert <br><b>ExpWind1: </b>impacts of wind farm in the northwest quarter of the Sahara<br><b>ExpWind2: </b>impacts of wind farm in the northeast quarter of the Sahara<b><br></b><b>ExpWind3: </b>impacts of wind farm in the southeast quarter of the Sahara<b>ExpWind4: </b>impacts of wind farm in the southwest quarter of the Sahara<br><b>ExpWindmosaic0: </b>impacts of checkerboard A wind farm in the Sahara<b>ExpWindmosaic1: </b>impacts of checkerboard B wind farm in the Sahara<b><br></b><br>wmask.nc: wind or solar farm locations in the Sahara wmask_g.nc: wind or solar farm location in the global desert<br><br>Contact: Yan Li, [e-mail]