High-resolution gridded climate data for Europe based on bias-corrected EURO-CORDEX: the ECLIPS-2.0 dataset

We developed a new climate dataset for Europe referred to as ECLIPS (European CLimate Index ProjectionS), which contains gridded data for 80 annual, seasonal, and monthly climate variables for two past (1961-1990, 1991-2010) and five future periods (2011-2020, 2021-2140, 2041-2060, 2061-2080, 2081-2100). The future data are based on five Regional Climate Models (RCMs)driven by two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios, RCP 4.5 and 8.5. The ECLIPS dataset has two versions; ECLIPS 1.1 contains data with spatial resolution of 0.11° × 0.11°, which is the resolution of underlying RCMs. ECLIPS1.1 is available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1181780. The ECLIPS 2.0 presented here contains a subset of climate indices of ECLIPS 1.1, downscaled to the resolution of 30 arcsec by means of the delta correction approach. Both ECLIPS versions were evaluated by testing their relationship with independent station data from the European Climate Assessment (ECA) dataset. Correlations of the empirical testing data to ECLIPS 1.1 ranged from 0.63 to 0.78,and to ECLIPS 2.0 from 0.78 to 0.93. suggesting substantial improvement due to downscaling. A large number of climate projections, time periods and indices as well as the availability of these data at two different spatial resolutions can support diverse studies across a range of disciplines and thus extend our understanding of climate-sensitive dynamics of many social-ecological systems The zipfile ECLIPS2.0 contains 5 folders with subfolders File naming system for the subfolders / folder are as follows ECLIPS2.0_196191: past climate 1961-1990: < climate index><period> ECLIPS2.0_199110: past climate 1991-2010 < climate index><period> ECLIPS2.0_45 : future climate RCP4.5 <subfolder-Model name> < climate index><period> ECLIPS2.0_85 : future climate RCP8.5 <subfolder-Model name> < climate index><period> Incase zpfile reader 7zip is not available, please install from here: https://www.7-zip.org/