The NA-CORDEX dataset, version 1.0

The North America CORDEX (NA-CORDEX) dataset contains regional climate change scenario data and guide for North America, for use in impacts, decision-making, and climate science. This dataset contains output from regional climate models (RCMs) run over a domain covering most of North America using boundary conditions from global climate model (GCM) simulations in the CMIP5 archive. These simulations run from 1950 to 2100 with a spatial resolution of 0.22 degree (25km) or 0.44 degree (50km). This version of the data is the same as the AWS S3 version. It includes selected variables converted to the Zarr format from the original NetCDF. Only daily data are currently available; all daily data were mapped to the standard calendar.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1949-01-01T0000+00
    End:  2101-01-01T0000+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1949-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2101-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 78.82945956898514
Bounding Box South Lat 8.334000000000005
Bounding Box West Long -178.18542514373942
Bounding Box East Long -15.959357468220787
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 12000.0 m
0.5 degree
0.25 degree
22000.0 m
26000.0 m
49000.0 m
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : NA Cordex Project Page
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 55502273.306 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Organization
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

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Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Mearns, Linda O. ORCID icon
McGinnis, Seth ORCID icon
Korytina, Daniel
Arritt, Raymond ORCID icon
Biner, S\u00e9bastien ORCID icon
Bukovsky, Melissa S. ORCID icon
Chang, Hsin-I ORCID icon
Christensen, Ole ORCID icon
Herzmann, Daryl ORCID icon
Jiao, Yanjun ORCID icon
Kharin, Viatcheslav ORCID icon
Lazare, Michael
Nikulin, Grigory ORCID icon
Qian, Minwei
Scinocca, John ORCID icon
Winger, Katja ORCID icon
Castro, Christopher L. ORCID icon
Frigon, Anne ORCID icon
Gutowski, William J. ORCID icon
Kessenich, Lee ORCID icon
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

Publication Date 2017-01-01
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SJ1JCH
Alternate Identifier d316009
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2026-09-08T03:52:12Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d316009
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Mearns, Linda O., McGinnis, Seth, Korytina, Daniel, Arritt, Raymond, Biner, S\u00e9bastien, Bukovsky, Melissa S., Chang, Hsin-I, Christensen, Ole, Herzmann, Daryl, Jiao, Yanjun, Kharin, Viatcheslav, Lazare, Michael, Nikulin, Grigory, Qian, Minwei, Scinocca, John, Winger, Katja, Castro, Christopher L., Frigon, Anne, Gutowski, William J., Kessenich, Lee. (2017). The NA-CORDEX dataset, version 1.0. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6SJ1JCH. Accessed 08 September 2026.

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