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Shapefile of climate regions for the state of Florida (Climate_regions.shp)

The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) and the U.S. Geological Survey have developed projected future change factors for precipitation depth-duration-frequency (DDF) curves at 174 NOAA Atlas 14 stations in central and south Florida. The change factors were computed as the ratio of projected future to historical extreme precipitation depths fitted to extreme precipitation data from various downscaled climate datasets using a constrained maximum likelihood (CML) approach. The change factors correspond to the period 2050-2089 (centered in the year 2070) as compared to the 1966-2005 historical period. Geospatial data provided in an ArcGIS shapefile are described herein. The shapefile contains polygons of climate regions including their acreages. As part of this project, best models from each downscaled climate dataset are determined for climate regions in South Florida and South-Central Florida based on how well they reproduce historical climate extreme indices. Table 1 of Datasets_station_information.xlsx lists the NOAA Atlas 14 stations located within each climate region. See Best_model_lists.xlsx for a list of best models for each climate region in each downscaled climate dataset and when all downscaled climate datasets are considered together.

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Author(s) Michelle M Irizarry-Ortiz orcid, John F Stamm orcid
Publication Date 2022-04-01
Beginning Date of Data 2021
Ending Date of Data 2021
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P935WRTG
Citation Irizarry-Ortiz, M.M., and Stamm, J.F., 2022, Shapefile of climate regions for the state of Florida (Climate_regions.shp): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P935WRTG.
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