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

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

File description:
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:
ExpWind0: impacts of wind farm in the SaharaExpSolar0: impacts of solar farm in the SaharaExpWindSolar0: impacts of wind and solar farms in the Sahara
ExpWindG: impacts of wind farm in the global desert ExpSolarG: impacts of solar farm in the global desert ExpWindSolarG: impacts of wind and solar farms in the global desert
ExpWind1: impacts of wind farm in the northwest quarter of the Sahara
ExpWind2: impacts of wind farm in the northeast quarter of the Sahara
ExpWind3: impacts of wind farm in the southeast quarter of the SaharaExpWind4: impacts of wind farm in the southwest quarter of the Sahara
ExpWindmosaic0: impacts of checkerboard A wind farm in the SaharaExpWindmosaic1: impacts of checkerboard B wind farm in the Sahara

wmask.nc: wind or solar farm locations in the Sahara wmask_g.nc: wind or solar farm location in the global desert

Contact: Yan Li, [e-mail]