Spatial datasets of CMIP6 climate change projections for Canada and the United States
Geospatial climate change projections are critical for assessing climate change impacts and adaptations across a wide range of disciplines. Here we present monthly-based grids of climate change projections at a 2-km resolution covering Canada and the United States. These data products are based on outputs from the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) and include projections for 13 General Circulation Models (GCMs) , three Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSP1 2.6, SSP2 4.5, and SSP5 8.5), four 30-year time periods (2011-2040, 2021-2050, 2041-2070, and 2071-2100), and a suite of climate variables, including monthly maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, climate moisture index, and various bioclimatic summaries. The products employ a delta downscaling method, which combines historical normal values at climate stations with broad-scale change projections (or deltas) from GCMs, followed by spatial interpolation using ANUSPLIN. Various quality control efforts, described herein, were undertaken to ensure that the final products provided reasonable estimates of future climate.
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- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2024-08-08T09:39:00
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2024-11-01T08:00:00
RI_414
Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Canadian Forest Service/Great Lakes Forestry Centre
Ontario
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Canada
- Status
- completed; complété RI_593
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
- Keywords ( RI_527 )
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- Climate change; Geospatial data; General Circulation Models; Shared socio-economic pathways; CMIP6; Downscaling; Canada; United States
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Climate change
- Climate
- Temperature
- Modelling
- Precipitation
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2011-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2100-12-31T23:59:00
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- Reference system identifier
- http://www.epsg-registry.org / EPSG:3978
- Distribution format
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TIFF
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TIFF
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.TIFF
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- OnLine resource
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CMIP6 Datasets
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HTTPS
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Dataset;TIFF;eng
- File identifier
- 2921339c-f5a0-4407-a243-663c2cddf78d XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2024-10-24T10:50:12
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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