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The ClimAVA_SWE data set — where ClimAVA stands for Climate Data for Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments — provides high-resolution (4 km) future climate projections derived from 13 CMIP6 General Circulation Models (GCMs). It focuses on Snow Water Equivalent (SWE), a crucial indicator of water availability, hydrologic extremes, and climate-related vulnerability, and includes projections for three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP245, SSP370, and SSP585) at a daily temporal scale. The initial release of ClimAVA_SWE covers the entire western United States. ClimAVA_SWE is produced using the newly developed Spatial Interactions Downscaling (SPID) method, which ensures high-quality downscaling through advanced machine learning techniques. SPID captures the relationship between large-scale spatial patterns at GCM resolution and fine-scale pixel values. For each pixel, two Random Forest models (one for the accumulation period and one for the ablation period) were trained using fine-resolution reference data as the predictand, and nine neighboring pixels from a spatially resampled (coarser) version of the reference data as predictors. These trained models are then applied to bias-corrected GCM data to generate the downscaled projections. The resulting dataset maintains strong climate realism and effectively represents extreme events.