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ORNL DAAC Data Set VEMAP 2: U.S. Monthly Climate, 1895-1993, Version 2

VEMAP 2: U.S. Monthly Climate, 1895-1993, Version 2
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Project: VEGETATION-ECOSYSTEM MODELING (VEMAP)

Project: VEGETATION-ECOSYSTEM MODELING (VEMAP)
A multi-institutional, international effort whose goal is to evaluate the sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem and vegetation processes to altered climate forcing and elevated atmospheric CO2. Phase 1 of the VEMAP project developed a model database of climate, soils, and vegetation compatible with the requirements of three ecosystem physiology models and three vegetation lifeform distribution models. Phase 2 developed a historical (1895-1994) gridded data set of climate (temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, humidity, and wind speed) and transient climate change scenarios based on coupled atmosphere-ocean GCM experiments, such as those with elevated greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosols.

Model: VEMAP 2: U.S. Monthly Climate, 1895-1993, Version 2

Model: VEMAP 2: U.S. Monthly Climate, 1895-1993, Version 2
An integrated input data set for ecosystem and vegetation modeling for the conterminous United States. The data set is a ~100 year gridded monthly time series of climate that includes realistic interannual variability.

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Citation:
Kittel, T. G. F., N. A. Rosenbloom, C. Kaufman, J. A. Royle, C. Daly, H. H. Fisher, W. P. Gibson, S. Aulenbach, D. N. Yates, R. McKeown, D. S. Schimel, and VEMAP 2 Participants. 2000. VEMAP 2: U. S. Monthly Climate, 1895-1993, Version 2. Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/568

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All Data Taken At Latitude: 49.00N To 25.00N, Longitude: 67.00W To 124.50W

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