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TopoSCALE validation

ERA5 · TopoSCALE · JJA 2002–2024

TopoSCALE (Fiddes and Gruber, 2014) downscales ERA5 reanalysis climate to each glacier, accounting for terrain. To check this downscaling, I compare daily summer air temperature and relative humidity against weather stations on or near glaciers across western North America.

Code: TopoPyScale-MODIS →

Click a station to show its points, or show them all.

Temperature (°C)

Relative humidity (%)

Daily means in local time, to match station timestamps; hourly UTC TopoSCALE data are shifted before aggregation. Summer: June, July, August.

Per-station table

StationRegionElev. (m)Periodn bias TRMSE Tr T bias HRRMSE HRr HR