The Regional Deterministic Reforecast System (RDRS) data was provided by Environment and Climate Change Canada Canadian Meteorological Center. Five years of data have been provided at an hourly timestep covering North America and parts of Central America Variables include: precipitation rate, air temperature, incoming shortwave radiation, incoming long wave radiation, longwave radiation, atmospheric pressure, specific humidity, wind components (along grid X/Y), corrected wind component (along W-E/S-N direct.), wind speed, and wind direction. More details about this dataset can be found at https://www2.meteo.uni-bonn.de/isrr/slides/ISRR2018_Slides06_Gasset.pdf. The data is limited to a rotated latitude-longitude uniform grid with about 15 km horizontal resolution that covers whole North America and the Arctic Ocean.
The region of interest (Great Lakes) was cropped. All files of the RDRS dataset were merged to one single file which contains the study domain and all hourly timesteps of the 5 years, i.e. 2010-01-01 12:00 to 2015-01-01 12:00 NetCDF. Researchers interested in this data can email Juliane Mai (University of Waterloo; juliane.mai@uwaterloo.ca)