REANALYSES historical ERA40 annual r1i1p1 Warm Spell Duration Index Spanning Years from WCRP CLIVAR ETCCDI: Climate Extreme Indices from the Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- latitude
- grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid
- longitude
- grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
- time
- grid: /time (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (1958) to (2001) by 12.0 N= 44 pts :grid
Other Info
- base_period
- 1961-1990
- datatype
- realarraytype
- iridl:hasSemantics
- climdex:ALTWSDI
- missing_value
- 1.00000002E20
- units
- days
- standard units*
- 86400 second
- history
- Created by climdex.pcic 0.6.1 on Mon Sep 24 10:51:51 2012
References
Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, X. Zhang, F. W. Zwiers, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 1. Model evaluation in the present climate, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 1716-1733, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50203.
Sillmann, J., V. V. Kharin, F. W. Zwiers, X. Zhang, and D. Bronaugh (2013), Climate extremes indices in the CMIP5 multimodel ensemble: Part 2. Future climate projections, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 2473-2493, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50188.
Last updated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT