The MACA datasets are licensed under a Creative Commons CC0 public domain license. This allows you to freely share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix,transform, and build upon the data).

While not required, when using The MACA datasets in your own work, we ask that proper credit be given. An example citation for the MACA data is provided below: Abatzoglou J.T. and Brown T.J. (2012). "A comparison of statistical downscaling methods suited for wildfire applications". International Journal of Climatology, doi: 10.1002/joc.2312.

The tools on this site are licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY license. This allows you to freely share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix,transform, and build upon the material) from this tool as long as you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made.

If you wish you use the figures in a publication, newsletter, website, you can use the figure as-is as long as you make sure that you give credit in some way to the tool (ie. MACA website: climate.nkn.uidaho.edu/MACA)

To cite a figure used from a tool, please use the following template for a reference:
Hegewisch, K.C. and Abatzoglou, J.T.. [Title of Web Tool] web tool. MACA website (https://climate.northwestknowledge.net/MACA/) accessed on [date figure downloaded].