High-Resolution Climate Model Simulations for Chicago Metro Area Adaptation Scenarios

Regional Climate Model simulations evaluate the combined impact of future climate and urbanization on the Chicago Metro Area. The work, deposited by ETD Depositor, includes long-term simulations showing an average warming of 5.96 °C and tests of adaptation strategies yielding a mean urban cooling of -0.43 °C. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-14.

Use Cases

• Evaluate urban climate adaptation strategies based on combined scenario simulations.
• Analyze the impact of Vehicle Anthropogenic Heat Emissions on urban temperatures based on distributed VAHE maps.
• Assess the performance of Weather and Research Forecast model urban configurations for regional climate modeling.
• Study the relative contribution of urbanization versus global climate change to local warming trends.

Strengths

• Includes long-term simulations quantifying an average warming of 5.96 °C for future conditions.
• Evaluates the cooling effect (-0.43 °C) of combined adaptation strategies.
• Focuses on a specific metropolitan area (Chicago Metro Area) using high-resolution climate models.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Results from Regional Climate Model (RCM) applications and simulations.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 14:55:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Chicago Metro Area