https://data.amerigeoss.org/dataset/097c99fd-6061-46b6-869b-5bb1909eeb5f
type: Dataset
description: The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have evaluated projections of future (2056-95) droughts for south Florida based on climate model output from the Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) downscaled climate dataset from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5). The emission scenarios evaluated include representative concentration pathways RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 from CMIP5. The analysis was performed for four regions in the SFWMD: (1) the entire SFWMD, (2) the Lower West Coast (LWC) water supply region, (3) the Lower East Coast (LEC) water supply region, and (4) the Okeechobee plus (OKEE+) water supply meta-region consisting of Lake Okeechobee (OKEE), the Lower Kissimmee (LKISS), Upper Kissimmee (UKISS), and Upper East Coast (UEC) water supply regions in the SFWMD. This data release consists of ten figures in Portable Document Format (PDF): -- Map of the study area and four analysis regions (Figure_study_area_map.pdf). -- Scatterplots of the joint distributions of historical (1950-2005) and future (2056-95) drought-event characteristics (duration and intensity) based on 6-mo. and 12-mo. averaged balance anomaly timeseries derived from climate models downscaled by the MACA method for the four regions assuming (1) historical-standard stomatal resistance (rs) (Drought_event_joint_distributions_historical_standard_rs.pdf), and (2) the Kruijt rs curve in the future (Drought_event_joint_distributions_Kruijt.pdf). -- Scatterplots of the joint distributions of historical (1950-2005) drought-event characteristics (duration and intensity) based on 6-mo. and 12-mo. averaged balance anomaly timeseries derived from the SFWMD Super-grid datasets for the four regions (Drought_event_joint_distributions_SFWMD_supergrid.pdf). -- Boxplots of future overall drought-event characteristics based on 6-mo. and 12-mo. averaged balance anomaly timeseries derived from climate models downscaled by the MACA method for the…
issued: 2025-09-23T18:02:40.312358
modified: 2024-07-16T00:00:00+00:00
spatial: Location
title: Characterizing projected future (2056-95) droughts in south Florida based on the Multivariate Adaptive Constructed Analogs (MACA) downscaled climate dataset from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5
contact point: Organization
  fn: Michelle M Irizarry-Ortiz
keyword: AmeriGEO
keyword: AmeriGEOSS
keyword: CKAN
keyword: GEO
keyword: GEOSS
keyword: National
keyword: North America
keyword: United States
keyword: climate
keyword: climatologymeteorologyatmosphere
keyword: droughts
keyword: evapotranspiration
keyword: extremes
keyword: florida
keyword: precipitation-atmospheric
keyword: precipitation-extremes
keyword: south-florida
keyword: south-florida-water-management-district
keyword: southern-florida
keyword: usgs-6670747dd34e89718fa3f6ee
theme: {geospatial}

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access URL: https://doi.org/10.5066/P14RO4HF
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