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Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3

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Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, S-C. Kao, and B.E. Wilson. 2022. Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2131

Overview

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1345
Version3.4
Project
Published2017-04-19
Updated2021-01-19
Usage7886 downloads
Citations19 publications cited this dataset

Description

This dataset provides Daymet Version 3 monthly summary climatologies at a 1-km x 1-km spatial resolution for four Daymet variables; minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure. Monthly averages are provided for minimum and maximum temperature and vapor pressure, and monthly totals are provided for the precipitation variable. These single month summary data products are produced for each individual month within a calendar year and cover the same period of record as the Daymet V3 daily data. The monthly climatology summaries are derived from the much larger dataset of daily weather parameters (Thornton et al., 2016), produced on a 1-km x 1-km grid over North America including Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Separate monthly summary files are provided for the land areas of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, which are also available as gridded daily files as part of the Daymet V3 dataset. Data are in a Lambert Conformal Conic projection for North America and are distributed in a netCDF file (version 1.6) format compliant to Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata conventions and geotiff file formats.

Science Keywords

  • ATMOSPHERE
  • PRECIPITATION
  • PRECIPITATION AMOUNT
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
  • SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR
  • WATER VAPOR INDICATORS
  • WATER VAPOR

Data Use and Citation

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Thornton, M.M., P.E. Thornton, Y. Wei, B.W. Mayer, R.B. Cook, and R.S. Vose. 2016. Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 3. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1345

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Additional Resources

TypeTitle
TutorialSpatial and Temporal Subsets of Daymet Data Using the THREDDS NetCDF Subset Service (NCSS) for Grids
WebinarNetCD-what? An Ecologist's Guide to Working with Daymet and other NetCDF-formatted Data

Version History

VersionDataset TitlePublished
2Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2 2016-03-17
3.4Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 32017-04-19
4.3Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 42020-12-15
4.5Daymet: Monthly Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R12022-11-01