Data: Global Warming and 21st Century Drying

Cook, B.I., J.E. Smerdon, R. Seager and S. Coats, 2014: Global warming and 21st century drying, Climate Dynamics, 43:2607-2627, DOI:10.1007/s00382-014-2075-y.

This website serves as a data portal for the PDSI and SPEI model fields presented and analyzed in the paper listed above. The data access is provided by the Ingrid-based data portal which is maintained and supported by the IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library and the Division of Ocean and Climate Physics at the LDEO. Links to the individual model fields are provided in the below table (please see Table 1 in our paper for more information on the CMIP5 models that are included in our analysis), but also can be accessed through the main Ingrid data porthole. At each of the model links you will find PDSI and SPEI fields that correspond to the ALL, PRE, PET, RNET and VPD versions of the fields presented in our paper. For those models that have performed ensemble simulations, the individual ensemble members are provided for each of the above listed versions of the fields. Links to dowload the data in multiple file formats are provided at numerous points within the Ingrid pages.

Data Porthole Homepage

Data Overview Page

Individual PDSI Fields by Model

Individual SPEI Fields by Model