Title: Modeled Historical Monthly Temperature Metrics, Wisconsin 1981-2010
- Raster data
- 2023
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Dates
- Coverage: 2023
Summary
This raster dataset contains a simplified version of the historical downscaled climate data produced by the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts' (WICCI) Climate Working Group. This dataset contains several temperature metrics averaged by month across the 30-year period from 1981-2010. These metrics include average maximum temperature, average minimum temperature, and inter-model standard deviation for both minimum and maximum temperature. In addition, the data includes the estimated number of days per month that meet commonly used thresholds: the days where the maximum temperature exceeds 90 F, 95 F, or 100 F; the days where the minimum temperature exceeds 70 F or falls below 32 F or 0 F; and the 'comfortable' days where the maximum temperature lies between 70 and 85 F. The spatial resolution of the data is 0.1 x 0.1 degrees (approximately 6x6 miles on the ground). This historical climate data is a subset of the downscaling 'de-biasing' process where the 1950-2005 time period in the climate model is matched to the 1950-2009 in the observed station record. The slight mismatch in the climate and observed time period has negligible impact because climate change operates slowly over decades. Instead it is more important that the climate record is long enough to 'average out' natural climate variability. More details about the original data this is derived from can be found at https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-uwpd-cmip5/ and the WICCI's two climate assessment reports from 2011 and 2021 (available at https://wicci.wisc.edu/). The python code used to produce this simplified version is available at https://github.com/TheGeographer/DownscaledClimateData. A how-to video on using this data is available from GeoData@Wisconsin: https://geodata.wisc.edu/pages/videos.
Subjects
- Environment
- Health
- Atmospheric Sciences
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- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-92.950002, -86.750006, 47.149998, 42.350002)
- Geometry: BBOX (-92.950002, -86.750006, 47.149998, 42.350002)
Provider
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Dr. Eric Compas, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Modeled Historical Monthly Temperature Metrics, Wisconsin 1981-2010. Raster data. https://geodata.wisc.edu/catalog/851725F8-3E45-466E-B3D4-62E07C5F146A
Format
Mixed
Languages
- English