What is it about?
This work presents BASD-CMIP6-PE, a high-resolution climate dataset (daily, 10 km) for Peru and Ecuador based on CMIP6 climate projections, statistically regionalized. It includes historical simulations (1850-2014) and future projections (2015-2100) from 10 climate models (GCMs) for precipitation and temperatures (minimum, mean, and maximum) under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP1-2.6, SSP3-7.0, and SSP5-8.5). The climate simulations from BASD-CMIP6-PE reliably represent climatology, seasonality, and extreme values, comparing them with observational data such as RAIN4PE for precipitation and PISCO for temperature. Similarly, hydrological simulations with BASD-CMIP6-PE accurately represent mean, low, and high flows.
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Why is it important?
BASD-CMIP6-PE data is crucial to assess the regional impacts of climate change on agriculture, water resources, and hydrological extremes across Peru and Ecuador.
Perspectives
The BASD-CMIP6-PE dataset has already played a pivotal role in conducting the first-ever investigation into projected future changes in various components of the regional hydrological cycle and hydrological extremes across Peru, including the analysis of transboundary river catchments. See "Pan-Peruvian Simulation of Present and Projected Future Hydrological Conditions Using Novel Data Products and Cmip6 Climate Projections" at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4602668
CARLOS ANTONIO FERNANDEZ PALOMINO
Universitat Potsdam
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This page is a summary of: High-resolution climate projection dataset based on CMIP6 for Peru and Ecuador: BASD-CMIP6-PE, Scientific Data, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02863-z.
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