This archive contains research data collected and/or funded by Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D), U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is a resource for accessing both short and long-term FS R&D research data, which includes Experimental Forest and Range data. It is a way to both preserve and share the quality science of our researchers.
Each archived data set comes with a complete set of metadata (data documentation) and any other documents the researcher deems important to the study. The data catalog entries present the metadata and a link to the data. In some cases the data link is to a different archive.
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High resolution interpolation of climate scenario change factors for the conterminous USA derived from AR4 General Circulation Model simulations
Projections of future global climate have been developed by numerous climate modeling groups; however, this data is often at spatial scales much larger than the spatial scale of resource management. This study develops a set of change factors that can be used with a user-selected historical climate data set to create climate change projections at the spatial scale of approximately 9.25 kilometer grid. Change factors are available for these climate variables: monthly mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures and precipitation, solar radiation, wind speed, and vapor pressure (used to calculate specific humidity).Data for the United States and Canada were extracted. Data for the conterminous United States are contained in this data product. Alaska data are available as another data product.
This research was a collaborative effort between scientists at the Canadian Forest Service and scientists at the USDA Forest Service.