Climate benchmarks and input parameters representing locations in 68 countries for a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN

Fullhart, Andrew T.; Nearing, Mark A.; Armendariz, Gerardo; Weltz, Mark A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-435-2021

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-435-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-435-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 2

Data description paper

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15 Feb 2021

Data description paper |

| 15 Feb 2021

Climate benchmarks and input parameters representing locations in 68 countries for a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN

Andrew T. Fullhart, Mark A. Nearing, Gerardo Armendariz, and Mark A. Weltz

Data sets

International climate benchmarks and input parameters for a stochastic weather generator, CLIGEN A. T. Fullhart, M. A. Nearing, G. Armendariz, and M. A. Weltz https://doi.org/10.15482/USDA.ADC/1518706

Short summary

This dataset represents CLIGEN input parameters for locations in 68 countries. CLIGEN is a point-scale stochastic weather generator that produces long-term weather simulations with daily output. The input parameters are essentially monthly climate statistics that also serve as climate benchmarks. CLIGEN has various applications including being used to force soil erosion models. This dataset may reduce the effort needed in preparing climate inputs for such applications.