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Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2

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Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, and S-C. Kao. 2022. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2129

Overview

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1219
Version2
Project
Published2014-05-15
Usage8383 downloads
Citations286 publications cited this dataset

Description

This data set provides Daymet output data as mosaicked gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, including continuous surfaces of day length, precipitation, shortwave radiation, snow water equivalent, maximum air temperature, minimum air temperature, and water vapor pressure. The Daymet data product was derived from selected meteorological station data by interpolation and extrapolation algorithms. The data product covers the period January 1, 1980 to December 31 of the most recently processed calendar year for Canada and the United States, currently 2015. Data for additional calendar years will become available by June of the following year. For Mexico, data are available for the period January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2009. Data are available on a daily time step at a 1-km x 1-km spatial resolution in Lambert Conformal Conic projection with a spatial extent that covers the conterminous United States, Mexico, and Southern Canada as meteorological station density allows. Data are assembled by parameter and year with each yearly file containing a time dimension of 365 days. Data are provided in Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata convention compliant (version 1.4) netCDF file formats.

Science Keywords

  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
  • REFLECTANCE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
  • SHORTWAVE RADIATION
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
  • SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • AIR TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • PRECIPITATION
  • PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
  • LAND SURFACE
  • TOPOGRAPHY
  • TERRAIN ELEVATION
  • TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE
  • SNOW/ICE
  • SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT

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Thornton, P.E., M.M. Thornton, B.W. Mayer, N. Wilhelmi, Y. Wei, R. Devarakonda, and R.B. Cook. 2014. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. Date accessed: YYYY/MM/DD. Temporal range: YYYY/MM/DD-YYYY/MM/DD. Spatial range: N=DD.DD, S=DD.DD, E=DDD.DD, W=DDD.DD. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1219

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  • Daymet_mosaics.pdf
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Version History

VersionDataset TitlePublished
2Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 22014-05-15
3Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 32016-07-15
4Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 42020-12-15
4.1Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R12022-11-01