Image Metadata File

Person Submitting Metadata/Point of Contact:

Name: Laura Stevens
Physical Address: 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Organization: CICSNC
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Phone:

Image Info:

Image Title:
Observed decadal mean annual precipitation change
Image Description:
Observed decadal mean annual precipitation change (deviations from the 1901-1960 average, %) for the Southwest U.S. (black line Based on a new gridded version of COOP data from the National Climatic Data Center, the CDDv2 data set (R. Vose, personal communication, July 27, 2012). Gray lines indicate the 20th and 21st century simulations from 15 CMIP3 models, for the high (A2) emissions scenario. Observed precipitation variations show greater variability than the model simulations.
Attributes (variables name, description and units):
Mean annual precipitation difference (percent / year)
Temporal domain:
Start Time: 1900-01-01 00:00:00.0
End Time: 2100-12-31 00:00:00.0
Spatial domain:
Max latitude: 41.9375
Min latitude: 31.4375
Max longitude: -102.063
Min longitude: -124.313
Keywords:
Southwest, Observed, Simulated, CDDv2, CMIP3, Precipitation
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Image Creation:

Who created the image:
Name: Laura Stevens
Physical Address: 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801
Organization: CICSNC
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Phone:
When was image created (YYYY-MM-DD): 2012-06-28 00:00:00.0

Data Sources:

Dataset #1
Dataset Name: CMIP3
Dataset Version:
Dataset Description: Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3
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Dataset Release/Publication Date:
Affiliated Organization Name and Role: The Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI)
Date Accessed: 2012-08-30 00:00:00.0
Dataset Location (ftp, URL, etc): http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov/ipcc/about_ipcc.php
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Description of the scope of a resource, quality report, or process:
Spatial Extent of the source/output (polygon, box or region name): All grids; 1971 - 1999 for 20th Century runs; 2021 - 2050, 2041 - 2070, and 2070 - 2099 for 21st Century runs
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Dataset #2
Dataset Name: CDDv2
Dataset Version: 2 beta
Dataset Description: Climate Division Database version 2
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Dataset Release/Publication Date:
Affiliated Organization Name and Role: NOAA/NCDC
Date Accessed: 2011-06-06 00:00:00.0
Dataset Location (ftp, URL, etc): ftp://ncdcftp/pub/upload/7days
Data qualifier (QA/QC, etc): QA for all elements...
The denominator of the scale of the source/output: N/A
Spatial Reference system used by the source/output: Geographic coordinates (lat/lon)
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Description of the scope of a resource, quality report, or process:
Spatial Extent of the source/output (polygon, box or region name): Conterminous U.S.
Temporal extent of the source/output: 1895-01-01 to present
Vertical extent of the source/output: Surface
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Spatial resolution of the source/output: 5 km

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