f6db3545-nca3-cmip3-downscaled-r201304-process

The multi-model mean difference in the number of cooling degree days under the higher emissions scenario (A2) for 2021-2050 relative to 1971-2000 was plotted for the contiguous United States.

1. For each model at each grid point, the number of cooling degree days under the higher emissions scenario (A2) was calculated for two periods: 1971-2000 and 2021-2050. 2. At each grid point, the number of cooling degree days was computed for both time periods by averaging the following models: - cgcm3_t47 - cgcm3_t63 - cnrm - echam5 - echo - gfdl_2.1 - hadcm3 - pcm 3. At each grid point, the difference in the number of cooling degree days was calculated for 2021-2050 minus 1971-2000. 4. Data were plotted for all grid points.

The duration of this activity was 56 hours.

Output artifacts generated by this activity :

clusterify.py
config.py
local_utils.py
mean_ffs.py
mpi_clusterify.py
mpi_model_mean.py
MultiModelMeanDifference.py
MultiModelMean.py
plot_model_diag.py
resolve_grids.py
test_suite.py
MMMDiff_CMIP3Downscaled_cdd_a2_2021_2050.sum
cdd_new_diff.pro
MMMDiff_CMIP3Downscaled_cdd_a2_2021_2050.nc
MMMDiff_CMIP3Downscaled_cdd_a2_2021_2050.ctl
cdd_plot.gs
MMMDiff_CMIP3Downscaled_cdd_a2_2021-2050.ps
CoolingDegreeDaysDiff_A2_2021-2050.ps
4-3_a.png
energy_increasing number of cdd_V7.png

This activity resulted in the following :

• image f6db3545-873b-4c9e-b857-c3bb5671aea4 was derived from dataset Eighth degree-CONUS Daily Downscaled Climate Projections

Computing environment : Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4) Mac OS X (darwin x86_64 m64)

Software used : SciPy (v0.10.1), IDL (v8.0), GrADS (v2.0.2)

Visualization software used : GrADS

Notes : SciPy, IDL, GrADS