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Historical (1950-2005) and projected (2006-2099) hydrological model (HMF-WA) estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows across West Africa driven by CMIP5 projected climate data
This dataset comprises seven ensembles of hydrological model estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows (m3s-1) on a 0.1° × 0.1° grid (approximate grid of 10 km × 10 km) across West Africa for historical (1950 to 2005) and projected future (2006 to 2099) periods. This dataset is the output from the Hydrological Modelling Framework for West Africa, or "HMF-WA" model. The ensembles correspond to historical and three projected future climate scenarios (RCP2.6, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) with two future scenarios of water use. The scenarios of water use are (i) future water use that varies in line with projected population increases, and (ii) future water use is the same as present day. This dataset is an output from the regional scale hydrological modelling study from African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis-2050 (AMMA-2050) project. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/6429828f-6a06-4d2d-8f50-4910b18f7ff4
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- Date (Publication)
- 2021-10-14
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-05-12
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/6429828f-6a06-4d2d-8f50-4910b18f7ff4
- Other citation details
- Rameshwaran, P., Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Kay, A.L. (2021). Historical (1950-2005) and projected (2006-2099) hydrological model (HMF-WA) estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows across West Africa driven by CMIP5 projected climate data. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6429828f-6a06-4d2d-8f50-4910b18f7ff4
Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Rameshwaran, P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-953X
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- Keywords
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- Climate and climate change
- Hydrology
- Modelling
- West Africa
- African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis AMMA
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- no limitations
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rameshwaran, P., Bell, V.A., Davies, H.N., Kay, A.L. (2021). Historical (1950-2005) and projected (2006-2099) hydrological model (HMF-WA) estimates of monthly mean and annual maximum river flows across West Africa driven by CMIP5 projected climate data. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6429828f-6a06-4d2d-8f50-4910b18f7ff4
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- 10000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- utf8 UTF8
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Environment
- Inland waters
- Begin date
- 1950-01-01
- End date
- 2099-12-31
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- WGS 84
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The monthly mean and annual maximum river flows estimates are output from the Hydrological Modelling Framework for West Africa, or “HMF-WA” model. The climatic inputs to the model were bias-corrected CMIP5 daily precipitation and potential evaporation derived from bias-corrected CMIP5 daily temperature data (near-surface air temperature and daily maximum and minimum surface air temperature). See Supporting Information for more details.
- File identifier
- 6429828f-6a06-4d2d-8f50-4910b18f7ff4 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:23:34
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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