High Resolution WRF Downscaling over California an Nevada USA
Acronym
WRF-CALNEV
Name
High Resolution WRF Downscaling over California an Nevada USA
Description
This dataset contains a 30-year high resolution meteorological dataset obtained using the WRF model (Advanced version Research WRF version 4.4). We used WRF and European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Reanalysis v5 as initial and boundary conditions to generate gridded meteorological variables. Based on the best physics suite, the downscaling dataset extends hourly from 1 January to 31 December, 1991-2020 and the horizontal domain has 1.5 km grid spacing covering the entire states of California and Nevada in the United States. Comparisons between hourly surface observations and WRF simulations of air temperature, relative humidity and wind speeds show mean absolute errors on the order of (1.6-2.0 C), (10%) and 1.2-1.5 m s-1, respectively.
Project webpage: https://clivac.eri.ucsb.edu/clivac/Regional_Climate/index.html