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I am looking for a rather high resolution data set in tabular form (no shapefile, a .txt, .csv, or .dbf) on certain natural hazards in California.

The natural hazards I am particularly interested in are drought and flood. Along these lines I look for variables of something like

  • Precipitation
  • Soil Moisture
  • Drought Indices
  • Days of Extreme Heat
  • Temperatures
  • Baseflow
  • Risk indices for drought/flood
  • Risk for wild fire
  • Coastal Flooding
  • Area flooded if sea level rises
  • Population of people affected by drought/flood

The number of variables should be >6. The background is I want to illustrate a new statistical method.

The data set should consist any of the following

  1. A spatial historical time series.
  2. A spatial times series of projections (e.g. A2 or B1 scenarios of IPCC, some bias-reduced downscaled projection or so).

For this lower the resolution, the better (say from a 5x5 km grid in lattitude longitude and daily values from 2000 onwards or so). I would however also be fine however with annual (or even more coarse resolution) data on census block or county level.

I've been looking at a couple of non-profit and governmental websites. But most data were either in form of maps or didn't meet the above criteria. Whenever I found data meeting the above criteria, I usually hit some authorization dialogue.

The closest I got to what I wanted was Cal-Adapt, the map on precipitation is a perfect example of the data that I'd like to have in tabular form.

They have a section tabular data downloads which would be exactly what I need, if it were not for the mildly irritating fact that one has to select grid cells to download the data for. Since I want all of the data I'd have to click on all the cells, which - with a resolution of a 12km x 12km and the size of CA being 423,970 km^2 - is rather tedious. But this means these data are out there and they are made available to the public, I just need the raw data (or an equivalent).

I'm also aware of these data sets but didn't have the time to investigate them.

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Check out the content at Data Basin, which has a lot of California data.

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  • Perhaps you can expand this answer? Jul 12, 2014 at 6:28

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