Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. Climate - Future Global Warming Scenarios

CSIRO, through the Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, was contracted by the National Water Commission to assess the current and future water availability in 18 regions across the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) considering climate change and other risks to water resources. Three climate scenarios were used for the hydrological modelling in the project: historical climate, recent climate and future climate. The future climate scenario, is used to assess the range of possible climate conditions around the year 2030. In this dataset, forty-five future climate variants, each with 112 years of daily climate sequences for 0.05 degree x 0.05 degree grid cells across the,MDB are used for the rainfall-runoff modelling. The future climate variants come from scaling the historical climate data covering 1895 to 2006 to represent the climate around 2030, based on analyses of 15 global climate models (GCMs) and three global warming scenarios. Further details are in the published report: Chiew FHS, Teng J, Kirono D, Frost AJ, Bathols JM, Vaze J, Viney NR, Young WJ, Hennessy KJ and Cai WJ (2008) Climate data for hydrologic scenario modelling across the Murray-Darling Basin. A report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. CSIRO, Australia. https://publications.csiro.au/rpr/pub?pid=procite:88ee61de-92b9-4acc-b9b1-bf6de5d45ca9\n\nFormat Name : netCDF \nFormat Version : 3.0 \n\n Dataset Creation Date: 2007\nLineage: The Murray Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project. Climate - Historical Climate Data Scenario dataset was a key input to this dataset. The future climate variants come from scaling the historical climate data covering 1895 to 2006 to represent the climate around 2030, based on analyses of 15 global climate models (GCMs) and three global warming scenarios. \n\nProcess Step:\nThe original .csv data was processed along with the cell index data to produce a set of netCDF files. The conversion programs were written by CSIRO Information Management &Technology staff, with the output reviewed and tested by a range of stakeholders. Each netCDF file is stamped with the version of the software used to do the conversion and the code is available from https://netcdftools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/netcdftools/trunk \n\nCredit:\nThe Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields project was undertaken by CSIRO under the Australian Government's Raising National Water Standards Program, administered by the National Water Commission. We acknowledge the climate modelling groups, the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) and the World Climate Research Program's (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modelling for their roles in making available the WCRP CMIP3 multi-model dataset. Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, US Government Department of Energy .\n