Reference datasets used in "The CMIP6-downscaled CORDEX-Southeast Asia (SEA) ensemble: evaluation and benchmarking for megacities of SEA"

This Zenodo repository provides the reference datasets used in the preprint: “The CMIP6-downscaled CORDEX-Southeast Asia (SEA) ensemble: evaluation and benchmarking for megacities of SEA.” To comply with the data availability requirements of Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) and to ensure transparency and reproducibility, this repository contains a curated reference dataset used in the analysis and figure generation. All data required to reproduce the key results and figures presented in the manuscript are available in this Zenodo repository. The full observational and reanalysis datasets used in this study are publicly available from their official data providers and can be accessed through the following sources: APHRODITE version V1101R1 and V1101XR (Yatagai et al., 2012): https://www.chikyu.ac.jp/precip/english/index.html SACA&D (Van den Besselaar et al., 2017): https://sacad.bmkg.go.id/ CRU TS4.08 (Harris et al., 2020): https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg/ ERA5 (Hersbach et al., 2020, 2023): https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.bd0915c6 Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) (Rohde and Hausfather et al., 2020): https://berkeleyearth.org/data/ CHIRPS-v2, REGEN_ALL, and GPCC_FDD_2022 from the FROGs database (Roca et al., 2019): https://frogs.ipsl.fr/ All datasets are subject to their respective licenses and data usage policies. Users are encouraged to download the complete datasets directly from the original providers for full-scale analysis and to cite the corresponding references.