High-resolution meteorological forcing data for hydrological modelling and climate change  impact analysis in the Mackenzie River Basin

Asong, Zilefac Elvis; Elshamy, Mohamed Ezzat; Princz, Daniel; Wheater, Howard Simon; Pomeroy, John Willard; Pietroniro, Alain; Cannon, Alex

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-629-2020

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Data description paper

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19 Mar 2020

Data description paper |

| 19 Mar 2020

High-resolution meteorological forcing data for hydrological modelling and climate change impact analysis in the Mackenzie River Basin

Zilefac Elvis Asong, Mohamed Ezzat Elshamy, Daniel Princz, Howard Simon Wheater, John Willard Pomeroy, Alain Pietroniro, and Alex Cannon

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-629-2020-supplement

Data sets

A Bias-Corrected 3-hourly 0.125 Gridded Meteorological Forcing Data Set (1979 – 2016) for Land Surface Modeling in North America Zilefac Elvis Asong, Howard Wheater, John Pomeroy, Alain Pietroniro, and Mohamed Elshamy https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0111

High-Resolution Meteorological Forcing Data for Hydrological Modelling and Climate Change Impact Analysis in Mackenzie River Basin Zilefac Elvis Asong, Howard Wheater, John Pomeroy, Alain Pietroniro, Mohamed Elshamy, Daniel Princz, and Alex Cannon https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0162

Short summary

This dataset provides an improved set of forcing data for large-scale hydrological models for climate change impact assessment in the Mackenzie River Basin (MRB). Here, the strengths of two historical datasets were blended to produce a less-biased long-record product for hydrological modelling and climate change impact assessment over the MRB. This product is then used to bias-correct climate projections from the Canadian Regional Climate Model under RCP8.5.