FORP-JPN02 version2

Future Ocean Regional Projection (FORP) datasets were produced by high-resolution regional ocean model simulations with ensemble atmospheric forcings from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models and scenarios. These were developed by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) under Social Implementation Program on Climate Change Adaptation Technology (SI-CAT, grant no.: JPMXD0715667163) supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Meteorological Research Institute Community Ocean Model version 4 (MRI.COMv4; Tsujino et al. 2017) was used for the regional ocean models. FORP-JPN02 is a historical and future ocean projection dataset in the region surrounding Japan with an approximately 2 km horizontal resolution, produced by dynamical downscaling simulation for several time slices from FORP-NP10 data. FORP-JPN02 version2 was from the dynamical downscaling of FORP-NP10 version2. The time slices of the FORP-JPN02 version2 are 1991-2005 from the historical runs, 2086-2100 from the RCP2.6 runs, and 2041-2055 and 2086-2100 from the RCP8.5 runs from four model cases (MIROC5, MRI-CGCM3, GFDL-ESM2M, and IPSL-CM5A-MR). The method of the dynamical downscaling was a simple one-way nesting method. The dataset includes the following variables (daily mean) in netCDF: potential temperature (t), salinity (s), sea surface height (ssh), eastward velocity (u), northward velocity (v), surface heat and fresh water fluxes (flx), atmospheric elements for the surface forcing in the ocean model grid (atm, wind) Please the header information of each netCDF file for the details of the variables.