CMIP5_US_RCP4.5: Monthly temperature and precipitation projections of the U.S....

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Monthly temperature and precipitation projections of the U.S. from 28 selected GCMs of CMIP5 (RCP4.5)

Description

Obtained monthly GCM temperature and precipitation projections averaged among the grid locations across the contiguous United States. The GCMs belong to CMIP5 and a total of 28 GCMs are included. The projecitons are under RCP4.5. Note that the projections were obtained for the grid locations within latitude: 25.12993 to 49.38323 and longitude: -124.6813 to -67.00742, which is slightly different from the projections of the contiguous United States.

Usage

data("CMIP5.RCP4.5.monthly.US.proj")

Format

A list object with 4 subsets of dataframes as monthly averaged daily Tmax, daily Tmin, and daily Tmean (as temp), and monthly total precipitation.

tmax, tmin, temp

a dataframe contains the dates (the first date of each month is used) and temperature projections (in unit of Fahrenheit) from each GCM (shown as column names)

prcp

a dataframe contains the dates (the first date of each month is used) and precipitation projections (in unit of inch) from each GCM (shown as column names)

Source

The GCM simulations of CMIP5 were acquired from the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) at: https://esgf-node.llnl.gov/projects/cmip5/.

References

Taylor, K. E., Stouffer, R. J., and Meehl, G. A., 2012. An overview of CMIP5 and the experiment design. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(4), 485–498. Lai, Y., and Dzombak, D. A., 2021: Use of Integrated Global Climate Model Simulations and Statistical Time Series Forecasting to Project Regional Temperature and Precipitation. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Examples

data(CMIP5.RCP4.5.monthly.US.proj)

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