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Climate scenarios for the conterminous
United States at the 5 arc minute grid spatial scale using SRES
scenarios A1B and A2 and PRISM climatology
Coulson, David P.; Joyce, Linda A.; Price, David T; McKenney, Daniel W.; Siltanen R. Martin; Papadopol, Pia; Lawrence, Kevin. 2010. Climate scenarios for the conterminous United States at the 5 arc minute grid spatial scale using SRES scenarios A1B and A2 and PRISM climatology. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Online: http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/data_archive/dataaccess/US_ClimateScenarios_grid_A1B_A2_PRISM.shtml
Monthly totals of precipitation in millimeters (mm), monthly means of daily maximum air temperature in degrees Celsius (C), and monthly means of daily minimum air temperature (C) were developed at the 5 arc minute grid level for the conterminous United States (US). Also, included are computed monthly mean of daily potential evapotranspiration (mm) and mean grid elevation in meters (m). These data were developed from climate scenarios used in the Fourth Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, specifically the A1B and the A2 SRES (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) scenarios as modeled by these climate models: CGCM, CSIRO, and MIROC. The monthly change factors were developed from global model output and downscaled to the 5 arc minute spatial grid using ANUSPLIN. The 30 year mean climatology (1961-1990) was developed from PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model) data at the 2.5 arc minute scale and aggregated to the 5 arc minute grid scale. The change factors were imposed upon the 30-year period (1961-1990) to develop the projections for each climate scenario.
Keywords: RPA assessment, climate scenario, temperature projections, precipitation projections
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Electronic Publish Date: December 9, 2010
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