Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models

This dataset contains post-processed observation-based and model-based data that can be used to reproduce the figures in Simpson et al (2023) "Observed humidity trends in dry regions contradict climate models", PNAS. The scripts that were used to generate these data and to make the figure papers can be found at https://github.com/islasimpson/qtrend_paper.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5065/5jz0-0n57

Temporal Range

1980 to 2020

Temporal Resolution

1.0 month

Spatial Resolution

1.0 degreesLatitude
1.0 degreesLongitude

Related Links

N/A

GCMD Science Keywords

• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY
• EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION

File Media Types

• application/x-gtar
• application/gzip

Support Contact

Isla Simpson
UCAR/NCAR - Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
islas@ucar.edu

Data Curator

GDEX Curator
UCAR/NCAR - GDEX
gdex@ucar.edu

Credit

This item was funded by NOAA Award #NA20OAR4310413.

Funding from the National Center for Atmospheric Research which is a major facility sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Cooperative Agreement No 1852977.

Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Access Constraints

None

Full Metadata

DIF XML
ISO19139 XML
OAI DC
JSON-LD

Version History

1.0