All-India district-scale climate projections for current (2006-2015), mid-century (2041-50), and end-century (2091-2100) periods

This dataset contains monthly mean data for 10 meteorological variables for each district of India for current, mid-century, and end-century periods for all the districts of India. To generate this data, we first dynamically downscaled the CMIP5 CESM RCP8.5 projections over India for the Current (2006-2015), Mid-Century (2041-50), and End-Century (2091-2100) periods using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model to 10 km resolution. The 30 years of data are archived in the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ (Barik et al. 2021 and 2022). Next, we processed the 10-km gridded downscaled data to calculate the monthly climatological mean by averaging over 10 years for each of the 3 periods. Finally, the monthly climatological means were processed in ArcGIS to develop the district scale datasets.