Sval_Imp: a gridded forcing dataset for climate change impact research on Svalbard

Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar; Østby, Torbjørn Ims

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-875-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-875-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-875-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 2

Data description paper

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20 Apr 2020

Data description paper |

| 20 Apr 2020

Sval_Imp: a gridded forcing dataset for climate change impact research on Svalbard

Thomas Vikhamar Schuler and Torbjørn Ims Østby

Data sets

Sval_Imp_v1, Svalbard impact assessment forcing dataset, version 1 T. V. Schuler and T. I. Østby https://doi.org/10.11582/2018.00006

Model code and software

Sval_Imp-matlab T. V. Schuler and T. I. Østby https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3719367

Short summary

Atmospheric variables needed to force terrestrial process models (permafrost, glacier mass balance, seasonal snow, surface energy balance) have been downscaled from the ERA-40 and ERA-Interim reanalyses using methodology described in the accompanying paper. The gridded dataset has a horizontal resolution of 1 km and covers the entire Svalbard archipelago. The data have a temporal resolution of 6 h and cover the entire ERA-40 period (1957–2002) and the ERA-Interim period (1979–2017).