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
 
- Maintenance and update frequency
 - As needed
 
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 - License
 
- Other constraints
 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
- Spatial representation type
 - Grid
 
- Distance
 - 4 km
 
- Metadata language
 - eng
 
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
 
 
- Begin date
 - 1981-01-01
 
- End date
 - 2060-12-31
 
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Amazon S3 bucket with SE Alaska High Resolution WRF data.
 
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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
 
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