Arctic Climate State Dependence of Precipitation Variability from Model Simulations

Arctic region (50N-90N) climate data from five quasi-equilibrium model simulations, each 400 years long. The dataset contains monthly variables including total precipitation, convective precipitation, large-scale precipitation, evaporation, moisture transport, temperature, pressure, and wind components. It was created for the paper "Climate state dependence of precipitation variability" and is hosted by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Use Cases

• Analyzing precipitation variability and its dependence on climate state based on the five CO2-forced simulations.
• Studying the relationship between poleward moisture transport and Arctic precipitation based on the MFatmos variable.
• Modeling the partitioning between convective and large-scale precipitation based on the CP and LSP variables.
• Investigating temperature and pressure correlations with precipitation patterns based on T2M, SSTK, and MSL variables.

Strengths

• Includes five distinct 400-year model simulations, providing a long-term perspective.
• Covers a broad range of CO2 forcing scenarios (025xco2, 05xco2, control, 2xco2, 4xco2).
• Contains nine key climate variables on a monthly timescale for detailed temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Data generated from climate model simulations for a specific research paper.

Time Range

Each simulation is 400 years long; specific calendar years are not provided.

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Arctic region from 50 degrees North to 90 degrees North.