Impact of Lakes in North American Regional Climate Simulations, 1979-2019

A supporting dataset for the journal paper 'The Impact of Lakes in North American Regional Climate Simulations'. It contains monthly mean and climatology data for surface variables from model runs spanning 1979 to 2019. The dataset was authored by Mani Mahdinia and harvested from the Borealis Dataverse platform.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of lake representation on regional climate variables based on the provided monthly mean data.
• Compare climatologies from simulations with and without lakes based on the 1999-2019 monthly climatology files.
• Reproduce or extend the model runs described in the paper using the provided namelist files.
• Modify model land surface representations using the included Jupyter Notebook to replace lakes with land points.

Strengths

• Includes a 41-year time series of monthly mean data (1979-2019).
• Provides a 21-year monthly climatology (1999-2019) for stable comparison.
• Contains executable code and configuration files (namelists, Jupyter Notebook, code fix) supporting reproducibility.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Output from regional climate model simulations, likely using the WRF model or similar.

Time Range

1979-2019

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 04:15:41; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America