PBL IMAGE 3.0 SSP Scenarios: Global Annual Rainfall Grids, 1970-2100

Grid-level annual rainfall data simulated by the PBL IMAGE 3.0 integrated assessment model for the period 1970 to 2100. The dataset includes results for baseline and mitigation scenarios from the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) project at a 30-arcminute spatial resolution. Data is provided by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) under a CC-BY license.

Use Cases

• Projecting future water availability and drought risk based on SSP scenario narratives.
• Analyzing spatial patterns of climate change impacts on precipitation based on gridded model outputs.
• Calibrating or validating regional hydrological models based on global climate model data.
• Studying the interaction between land-use change and rainfall patterns under different policy assumptions.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal range from 1970 to 2100 in 5-year increments.
• Includes multiple defined SSP and RCP scenarios for comparative analysis.
• Provides global spatial data at a consistent 30-arcminute grid resolution.
• Model framework integrates demographic, technological, economic, and social factors.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific ML tasks.
• Data freshness is unverified as the last update date is unknown.

Provenance

Source

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) IMAGE modeling team.

Collection Method

Simulated outputs from the IMAGE 3.0 integrated assessment model.

Time Range

1970 to 2100

Freshness

Model version is from 2014; scenario data publication date is unknown.

Geography

Global