Overview

The World Climate Research Programme's 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) represents an enormous advance in the quality, detail, and scope of climate modeling.

The Global Downscaled Projections for Climate Impacts Research dataset makes this modeling more applicable to understanding the impacts of changes in the climate on humans and society with two key developments: trend-preserving bias correction and downscaling. In this dataset, the Climate Impact Lab provides global, daily minimum and maximum air temperature at the surface (tasmin and tasmax) and daily cumulative surface precipitation (pr) corresponding to the CMIP6 historical, ssp1-2.6, ssp2-4.5, ssp3-7.0, and ssp5-8.5 scenarios for 25 global climate models on a 1/4-degree regular global grid.

GDPCIR data can be accessed on the Microsoft Planetary Computer. The dataset is made up of two collections, distinguished by data license. More information about the dataset is available in these collections, including access instructions and examples, data formats, available models, methods, and citation/licensing requirements, on each dataset's homepage linked below.

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CIL Global Downscaled Projections for Climate Impacts Research (CC0-1.0)

Climate Impact Lab Global Downscaled Projections for Climate Impacts Research (CC0-1.0)

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CIL Global Downscaled Projections for Climate Impacts Research (CC-BY-4.0)

Climate Impact Lab Global Downscaled Projections for Climate Impacts Research (CC-BY-4.0)