WRF 6-km Hydroclimate Simulation: Precipitation Objects for Western US

A historical simulation covers 1981-2010, and five future simulations project conditions for 2041-2070. The dataset contains precipitation object features generated using the WRF V3.8 model at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for a manuscript on cold season storms. This is a preliminary version, with more data and finalized scripts to be added before the associated manuscript is published.

Use Cases

• Analyzing changes in storm characteristics based on historical and future climate simulations
• Validating regional climate models using precipitation object features
• Studying the sharpening of cold season storms based on the Pseudo Global Warming approach described

Strengths

• Includes a 30-year historical simulation (1981-2010) and five 30-year future projections (2041-2070)
• Data is generated from a high-resolution (6-km) WRF model simulation
• Associated with peer-reviewed research published in Nature Climate Change and Geophysical Research Letters

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Collection Method

Generated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF V3.8) model with a Pseudo Global Warming approach.

Time Range

Historical: 1981-2010; Future projections: 2041-2070

Geography

Western United States