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Southeast Alaska High Resolution WRF: Hourly dynamically downscaled climate model simulations at 1- and 4-km spatial resolution for both historical (1981-2019) and future periods (2031-2060)

Southeast Alaska is a topographically complex region that is experiencing rapid rates of change with climate regimes that range from temperate rainforest to expansive glaciers and icefields. Global climate models – with a typical spatial resolution of 100 km – poorly resolve this area, while recent downscaling efforts have sought to improve upon existing deficiencies. This research produced hourly dynamically downscaled climate model simulations at 1- and 4-km spatial resolution for both historical (1981-2019) and future periods (2031-2060) across Southeast Alaska. Particular focus was placed on three key watersheds: 1) Montana Creek near Juneau, 2) Indian River near Sitka and 3) Staney Creek on Prince of Wales Island. The projected simulations were based on the representative concentration pathway 8.5 (RCP8.5) emissions scenario. The simulations included the historical Climate Forecast System Reanalysis, and two climate models (the Community Climate System Model, version 4 and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model, version 3), which were both run for historical and future periods. All downscaling simulations were run using a 17-month spin-up period to sufficiently generate the land surface state and the lateral boundary conditions for each were updated every 6 hours to constrain the output. The downscaling was completed using the Weather and Research Forecasting Model, version 4.0.

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Date (Creation)
2025-09-24
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
Originator
  International Arctic Research Center - Rick Lader
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
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Use constraints
License
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
4  km
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
1981-01-01
End date
2060-12-31
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ( )

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S3 bucket ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Amazon S3 bucket with SE Alaska High Resolution WRF data.

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ScienceBase-Catalog ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

ScienceBase-Catalog entry for this dataset.

File identifier
259f3985-d7d7-41da-ab93-19baf55ea8cb XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2025-09-24T14:40:39
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning
 
 

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