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Climate System Model (CCSM)
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Welcome to NCAR's GIS Program Climate Change Scenarios GIS data portal. This portal is intended to serve a community of GIS users interested in climate change. The free datasets of climate change projections can be downloaded as a shapefile, a text file, or as an image. Many 2D variables from modeled projected climate are available for the atmosphere and land surface. These climate change projections were generated by the NCAR Community Climate System Model for the 4th Assessment Report (AR4) and for the 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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Thank you for visiting GIS Climate Change Scenarios website. This GIS portal is complimentary to other IPCC data distributing portals (e.g., Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), and the Earth System Grid (ESG)), where complete data archive is available in common atmospheric data formats.

Annual temperature anomaly derived from downscaled CCSM projections. 2040-2059 compared to 1980-1999 for scenario A1B.
Annual temperature anomaly derived from downscaled CCSM projections. 2040-2059 compared to 1980-1999 for scenario A1B.
Seasonal total precipitation anomaly for March - May. CCSM simulations for 2040-2059 compared to 1980-1999 for scenario A2.
Seasonal total precipitation anomaly for March - May. CCSM simulations for 2040-2059 compared to 1980-1999 for scenario A2.
Global CCSM projections of surface temperature monthly mean for January 2099. Emissions Scenario A1B.
Global CCSM projections of surface temperature monthly mean for January 2099. Emissions Scenario A1B.
Annual total precipitation for 2030. Derived from CCSM monthly simulations emissions scenario B1.
Annual total precipitation for 2030. Derived from CCSM monthly simulations emissions scenario B1.
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Resources

tutorial A tutorial on how to analyze climate projections from the CCSM in a GIS.
polygon shapefile A polygon dataset for use with the CCSM modeled climate projections.
downscaling document Statistical downscaling of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) monthly temperature and precipitation projections.
citation information Information on how to properly cite the use of the data.