A high-resolution daily global dataset of statistically downscaled CMIP6 models for climate impact analyses

Solomon Gebrechorkos, Leyland Julian, Louise Slater, Michel Wortmann, Philip Ashworth

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Abstract

A large number of historical simulations and future climate projections are available from Global Climate Models, but these are typically of coarse resolution, which limits their effectiveness for assessing local scale changes in climate and attendant impacts. Here, we use a novel statistical downscaling model capable of replicating extreme events, the Bias Correction Constructed Analogues with Quantile mapping reordering (BCCAQ), to downscale daily precipitation, air-temperature, maximum and minimum temperature, wind speed, air pressure, and relative humidity from 18 GCMs from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). BCCAQ is calibrated using high-resolution reference datasets and showed a good performance in removing bias from GCMs and reproducing extreme events. The globally downscaled data are available at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (https://doi.org/10.5285/c107618f1db34801bb88a1e927b82317) for the historical (1981–2014) and future (2015–2100) periods at 0.25° resolution and at daily time step across three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP2-4.5, SSP5-3.4-OS and SSP5-8.5). This new climate dataset will be useful for assessing future changes and variability in climate and for driving high-resolution impact assessment models.
Original languageEnglish
Article number611
Pages (from-to)1-15
Number of pages15
JournalScientific Data
Volume10
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is part of the Evolution of Global Flood Hazard and Risk (EVOFLOOD) project [NE/S015817/1] supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). We acknowledge the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for storing the downscaled data. We thank JASMIN (UK’s data analysis facility for environmental science), University of Southampton (IRIDIS) and the University of Oxford (ARC) and their team members for providing access to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems that were used to perform the downscaling process undertaken herein.

Funding Information:
This work is part of the Evolution of Global Flood Hazard and Risk (EVOFLOOD) project [NE/S015817/1] supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). We acknowledge the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) for storing the downscaled data. We thank JASMIN (UK’s data analysis facility for environmental science), University of Southampton (IRIDIS) and the University of Oxford (ARC) and their team members for providing access to the High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems that were used to perform the downscaling process undertaken herein.

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