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Annual frequencies of freezing rain diagnosed from the fifth-generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) for the past and future climates
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McCray, Christopher D.; Paquin, Dominique; Thériault, Julie M.; Bresson, Émilie — 2022-06-09 This dataset contains output of yearly frequencies (hours) of freezing rain identified using four precipitation-type algorithms applied to output of the fifth-generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5) run at Ouranos. Algorithms are applied to three-hourly output of eight simulations of four dynamically-downscaled global climate models (GCMs) on a 0.22° horizontal grid over the North American domain. Simulations for 1980-2005 are forced with observed greenhouse gas concentrations, with data for 2006-2099 using the RCP 8.5 greenhouse gas concentration trajectory. Each occurrence of freezing rain identified in the model output is multiplied by 3 for comparison with hourly observations. These data are associated with the article "A multi-algorithm analysis of projected changes to freezing rain over North America in an ensemble of regional climate model simulations" by McCray et al., submitted in 2022 to the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
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Snowfall statistics for past and future climates calculated from two ensembles of the fifth-generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5)
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McCray, Christopher D.; Schmidt, Gavin A.; Paquin, Dominique; Leduc, Martin; Bi, Zhaoyue; Radiyat, Mohammad; Silverman, Carolyn; Spitz, Matthew; Brettschneider, Brian R. — 2023-06-06 This dataset contains extreme snowfall statistics from observations and regional climate model simulations. Simulated snowfall statistics are calculated using two ensembles of the fifth-generation Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5). The first is a set of four simulations produced by Ouranos for the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) at 0.22° horizontal grid spacing over the North American domain. The second ensemble is a set of 50 simulations from the ClimEx project, driven by 50 members of the CanESM2 large ensemble over the northeastern North America domain at 0.11° horizontal grid spacing. Observations are derived from the Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCNd) dataset. Statistics include mean annual snowfall, the 95th percentile of daily snowfall (SF95), and the mean annual number of daily snowfall events exceeding 10% of the climatological mean annual snowfall (TC10). Statistics are presented for four time periods, the 1980-2009 recent past climate and the 30-year periods during which the +2, +3, and +4°C global warming levels (relative to the 1850-1900 preindustrial climate) are attained. These data are associated with the manuscript “Changing Nature of High-Impact Snowfall Events in Eastern North America” by McCray et al. (2023), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres available at https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038804.

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(Author: McCray, Christopher D.)

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