This raster dataset provides a representation of the extreme temperature index Annual SU - Annual Summer Days (number of days when daily maximum temperature > 25ºC) in the Middle East and North Africa Region, for the reference period 1986-2005. The Regional Climate Model (RCM) ensemble adopts the time periods generally used by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and other regional climate modelling experiments. It runs climate simulations based on three future time periods that are compared with a historical reference period. The Regional Climate Model (RCM) ensemble adopts the time periods generally used by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) and other regional climate modelling experiments. It runs climate simulations based on three future time periods that are compared with a historical reference period. Available for 1986-2005 reference period, the 50km pixel resolution raster grids are generated for Moderate and High representative concentration pathways (RCPs), climate change scenarios developed by the IPCC for informing global and regional climate modelling work: RCP4.5 and RCP8.5.

This dataset provides a representation of the extreme temperature index Seasonal SU, Seasonal Summer Days - Seasonal number of days when daily maximum temperature > 25ºC - for the Middle East and North Africa Region from 1951 to 2100. The climate change projections use global climate models/global circulation models (GCMs). These are numerical models that combine physical processes on the land surface and in the ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere to simulate the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations. The 50km pixel resolution raster grids are provided for two of the four representative concentration pathways (RCPs), climate change scenarios developed by IPCC for informing global and regional climate modelling work, namely; moderate and high (RCP4.5 /8.5) and generated for NOAA-GFDL-GFDL-ESM2M System Model GCM. Four seasons are defined as: 1 - December-January-February; 2 - March-April-May; 3 - June-July-August; 4 - September-October-November.

This raster dataset provides a representation of the extreme temperature index Annual SU, Annual Summer Days - Annual number of days when daily maximum temperature > 25ºC - for the Middle East and North Africa Region from 1951 to 2100. The climate change projections use global climate models/global circulation models (GCMs). These are numerical models that combine physical processes on the land surface and in the ocean, atmosphere and cryosphere to simulate the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse-gas concentrations. The 50km pixel resolution raster grids are provided for two of the four representative concentration pathways (RCPs) developed by IPCC for informing global and regional climate modelling work namely, moderate and high (RCP /4.5 /8.5) and generated using NOAA-GFDL-GFDL-ESM2M System Model GCM.