Downscaled Climate Projections for California's Fifth Climate Assessment

Cal-Adapt provides future and historical climate projections for California and its surrounding regions. This data was co-produced to directly support the state's Fifth Climate Assessment and resilience investment planning. The dataset is hosted on AWS Open Data and uses the Zarr format for efficient storage of simulation outputs.

Use Cases

• Model future climate risk scenarios based on downscaled projections.
• Analyze historical climate trends for California and its environs.
• Support resilience investment planning for infrastructure and natural resources.
• Validate and compare climate model simulations for a specific geographic region.

Strengths

• Data is purpose-built for California's official Fifth Climate Assessment.
• Projections are downscaled, which typically provides higher spatial resolution for regional analysis.
• Hosted on a reliable cloud platform (AWS Open Data) with the Zarr format for large array data.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine (by Eagle Rock Analytics, Inc.)

Collection Method

Climate model simulations and downscaling processes.

Time Range

Historical and future periods (specific ranges unknown).

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

California and its surrounding regions.