Climate data for adaptation and vulnerability assessments (SWE) – west

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The ClimAVA_SWE data set — where ClimAVA stands for Climate Data for Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments — provides high-resolution (4 km) future climate projections derived from 13 CMIP6 General Circulation Models (GCMs). It focuses on Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), a crucial indicator of water availability, hydrologic extremes, and climate-related vulnerability, and includes projections for three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585) at a daily temporal scale. The initial release of ClimAVA_SWE covers the entire western United States. ClimAVA_SWE is produced using the newly developed Spatial Interactions Downscaling (SPID) method, which ensures high-quality downscaling through advanced machine learning techniques. SPID captures the relationship between large-scale spatial patterns at GCM resolution and fine-scale pixel values. For each pixel, two Random Forest models (one for the accumulation period and one for the ablation period) were trained using fine-resolution reference data as the predictand, and nine neighboring pixels from a spatially resampled (coarser) version of the reference data as predictors. These trained models are then applied to bias-corrected GCM data to generate the downscaled projections. The resulting dataset maintains strong climate realism and effectively represents extreme events.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.26050/WDCC/ClimAVA-SWE
Metadata Access https://dmoai.cloud.dkrz.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=iso19115&identifier=oai:wdcc.dkrz.de:iso_5332410
Provenance
Creator Sajad Khoshnood Motlagh; Dr. Andre Geraldo de Lima Moraes; Kayla Smith
Publisher World Data Center for Climate (WDCC)
Publication Year 2025
Funding Reference info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UAES, USU//Grant%2FAward No: UTA01726/US//UAES grants
Rights CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact https://www.usu.edu/
Representation
Language English
Resource Type collection ; collection
Format NetCDF
Size 114078 MB
Version 1
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-124.750W, 31.333S, -102.000E, 49.040N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2100-12-31T00:00:00Z