Climate Forced Hydropower Simulations for the African Continent Using NASA NEX GDDP (Q7008)

This dataset includes the results of simulations of future hydropower usable capacityfor power plants across the five African power pools. These include 87 power plants in 27 different countries.These simulations have been forced using NASAs Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) dataset, which includes maximum temperature, minimum temperature, and precipitation simulations from 21 Global Climate Models (GCM) and three scenarios. The scenarios include a retrospective run (1950-2005) and two projection runs for Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5. We include a PDF file Description of Data.pdf that describes all theinformation included in the dataset. This work is based on the future publication: Caceres, A.L., Jaramillo, P., Matthews, H.S.,Samaras, C, Nijssen, Bart. Power pools for the win: Assessing climate resilience of hydropower resources in African power pools.