Downscaled and debiased climate simulations for North America from 21,000 years ago to 2100AD.

ABSTRACT: Increasingly, ecological modellers are integrating paleodata with future projections to understand climate-driven biodiversity dynamics from the past through the current century. Climate simulations from earth system models are necessary to this effort, but must be debiased and downscaled before they can be used by ecological models. Downscaling methods and observational baselines vary among researchers, which produces confounding biases among downscaled climate simulations. We present unified datasets of debiased and downscaled climate simulations for North America from 21 ka BP to 2100AD, at 0.5° spatial resolution. Temporal resolution is decadal averages of monthly data until 1950AD, average climates for 1950-2005 AD, and monthly data from 2010 to 2100AD, with decadal averages also prov

SUBMITTER: Lorenz DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4932881 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature