Climate Projections for the Western Lake Erie Basin for medium and high emission scenarios for hydrologic modeling assessment studies (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 U.S. Economy. With change in climatic conditions, there is 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 primary data for different climate models for correction of their bias using methodology in Mehan et al., (2018) were obtained from MACA (Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs), available at the URL: <a href="https://climate.northwestknowledge.net/MACA/">https://climate.northwestknowledge.net/MACA/</a> (accessed on April 30, 2018).</p>

<p>Mehan, S., Gitau, M. W., and Flanagan, D. C.: Development of reliable future climatic projections to assess hydro-meteorological implications in the Western Lake Erie Basin, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-204, in review, 2018.</p>

本数据集涵盖实测气候数据与经过偏差校正的气候预估数据，所用数据源自美国国家气候数据中心（National Climatic Data Center）的16个地面气象站，适用于水文与气候变化相关研究。