United States daily projected mean temperature data at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area level from 2015 to 2060. Projections were generated from WRF/Chem regional climate simulations under multiple Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scenarios. The dataset was authored by Yongsoo Choi of NSAPH and last updated on June 9, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling future heat-related health burdens based on projected daily mean temperature.
- Assessing climate change impacts on Alzheimer’s disease under different SSP scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, SSP5-8.5).
- Conducting high-resolution spatial analyses of temperature exposure at the ZCTA level.
- Validating regional climate model outputs from WRF/Chem simulations against health outcome data.
Strengths
- Projections cover a 45-year time range from 2015 to 2060.
- Data provides high-resolution geographic coverage at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area level for the entire United States.
- Includes projections under three distinct Shared Socioeconomic Pathway scenarios.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- Yongsoo Choi, NSAPH.
- Collection Method
- Projected temperatures generated from WRF/Chem regional climate simulations and processed to ZCTA-level estimates.
- Time Range
- 2015 to 2060
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-09 15:58:19; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United States, at the ZIP Code Tabulation Area level.