This directory contains 45 files of projected daily maximum and minimum temperatures and daily precipitation totals at one of four tribal centers in and around Nevada. The projections were "zoomed" in to represent the climatic variations and changes in 15 different global climate models, zoomed in to represent a 3.5mi x 3.5mi box centered at the location above. ------ annual projections -------- The daily projection files are named according to: __.txt where is either colorado (for the Colorado River tribe), duckv (for the Duck Valley tribe), Pyramid (for the Pyramid Lake Paiute tribe), and walker (for the Walker Lake tribe), is the acronym for one of 15 different climate models (access1-0, bcccsm11, canesm2, ccsm4, cesm1bgc, cesm1cam5, cmcccm, cmcccms, cnrmcm5, gfdlcm3, gfdlesm2m, hadgem2cc, hadgem2es, miroc5, mpiesmlr--some details of most of these models are listed in chapter 2 at http://www.water.ca.gov/climatechange/docs/2015/Perspectives_Guidance_Climate_Change_Analysis.pdf ),and is either (with historical greenhouse-gas concentrations), (with future greenhouse-gas emissions assumed to be moderated so much in coming years that greenhouse gas concentrations in the global atmosphere level off by end of century), or (with emissions assumed to continue to accelerate all through this century, with greenhouse-gas concentrations like- wise contining to grow rapidly throughout this century). The precise locations represented by these time series are NAME Longitude Latitude Colorado River -114.38559275000 33.93484395910 Pyramid Lake Paiute -119.53749487200 40.0368533200 Duck Valley -116.18682861400 41.99721418400 Walker River -118.74690831800 38.98325718510 The files contain daily values from 1950 to 2095 in the historical files, and 2006 to 2099 or 2100 (depending on the model) for the rcp45 and rcp85 files. There are 180 such files, because 3 emissions scenarios x 15 climate models x 4 tribes = 180. All files are in simplest ascii (text) format, with each line representing a single day, and including year, month, day, precipitation (in mm), tmax (in degrees C), tmin (in degrees C) These projections were statistically downscaled from global climate-model grids by the method described in the journal article, included here in pdf form, in Pierceetal_Hydrometeorology.pdf by David Pierce, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. ------------------ mddettin@usgs.gov