Dynamical Downscaled and Projected Climate for the US Pacific Islands
type: Dataset
description: -- Methods -- The Weather Research and Forecast model (WRF) is applied to construct triply-nested meshes. The outermost domain (20-km horizontal resolution) is large enough to cover almost the whole tropical and subtropical areas from the central Pacific to the western Pacific. The intermediate domain has 4-km horizontal resolution, and the innermost domain of each individual island has a horizontal resolution of 0.8 km. The driving fields for the atmosphere are the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications reanalysis, and the sea surface temperature (SST) is from NOAA. Variables in the driving fields include temperature, wind, geopotential height, water vapor, etc. For the future runs, the global warming signals are added to the present-day driving fields. This method is called the Pseudo-Global-Warming method which is currently used in various applications. The global warming signals are from 12 CIMP5 models. -- Datasets -- There are three runs. The present-day run starts on January 1st 1990 and ends on December 31st 2009. The purpose of the present-day run is twofold, e.g., to retrieve the present-day climate and to provide the downscaled high-resolution climate data. The future runs include two scenarios, one for RCP4.5 and the other one for RCP8.5. The future runs represent the time period from January 1st 2080 to December 31st 2099 although the date stamps used for projections are the same as those for the present-day run. The dynamical downscaling provides hourly atmospheric and land surface variables, such as rainfall, surface sensible heat fluxes and evaporation, radiative fluxes, wind, and temperature.
keyword: amerigeo
keyword: amerigeoss
keyword: ckan
keyword: climate
keyword: dynamical-downscaling
keyword: geo
keyword: geoss
keyword: guam
keyword: kauai
keyword: national
keyword: north-america
keyword: oahu
keyword: pacific
keyword: rcp4-5
keyword: rcp8-5
keyword: samoa
keyword: united-states
issued: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.219169
modified: 2016-12-16
theme: {geospatial}
contact point: Organization
  fn: (Point of Contact)
spatial: Location

US Migrating
type: Agent

THREDDS Catalog
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard THREDDS catalog for selecting data from this dataset.
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036542
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.205492

File Information
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset.
format: HTML
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/pacis.html
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036548
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.205894

File Information
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset.
format: HTML
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/guam.html
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036552
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.206289

File Information
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset.
format: HTML
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/kauai.html
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036556
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.206667

File Information
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset.
format: HTML
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/oahu.html
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036560
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.207027

File Information
type: Distribution
description: This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset.
format: HTML
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/samoa.html
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036563
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.207387

OPeNDAP
type: Distribution
description: THREDDS OPeNDAP
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/guam
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036567
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.207744

OPeNDAP
type: Distribution
description: THREDDS OPeNDAP
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/kauai
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036571
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.208121

OPeNDAP
type: Distribution
description: THREDDS OPeNDAP
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/oahu
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036574
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.208488

OPeNDAP
type: Distribution
description: THREDDS OPeNDAP
access URL: https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/samoa
issued: 2022-08-07T13:01:07.036578
modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.208844

Original Metadata
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description: The metadata original source
media type: text/xml
format: XML
access URL: https://data.doi.gov/harvest/object/078da9a4-ec47-4855-a90a-5fa52baad837
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modified: 2025-11-22T02:33:50.209197