Climate Projection Data for 21st century for the Western Lake Erie Basin (Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan)

<p>Lake Erie is the shallowest of the five great lakes in the United States. Water from Lake Erie supports living, recreation, and navigation for people living in surrounding regions and adds a lot to the U.S. Economy. With change in climatic conditions, there is a danger that the thick layer of algae proliferating on the surface of Lake Erie will continue to grow, if the cause of the problem is not controlled under the changing climate. Since climate regulates all the hydrologic processes, specifically movement of nutrients which cause algae to bloom, reliable future climate information is needed at finer resolution to study the impact of changing climate on water resources in Lake Erie.</p>

<p>Climate data for sixteen different climate stations in Western Lake Erie Basin (WLEB) was generated as a part of the dissertation by Sushant Mehan, Ph.D. Candidate in the Purdue University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, under the guidance of Dr. Margaret W. Gitau. All related datasets for this dissertation may be accessed here: <a href="http://doi.org/10.4231/R70000B4">http://doi.org/10.4231/R70000B4</a>.</p>

<p>The reliable climate future projections were developed for precipitation and temperature (maximum and minimum) from nine different climate models for sixteen-point stations using historic climate data from 1966-2015 obtained from National Climate Data Center (NCDC). The projections are corrected for their bias from 2006-2099.</p>