Description
The Modern Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2) contains a wealth of information that can be used for weather and climate studies. By combining the assimilation of observations with a frozen version of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS), a global analysis is produced at an hourly temporal resolution spanning from January 1980 through present (Gelaro et al., 2017). It can be difficult to parse through a multidecadal dataset such as MERRA-2 to evaluate the interannual variability of weather that occurs on a daily timescale, let alone determine the occurrence of an extreme weather event. This data collection provides climate statistics compute using MERRA-2 to assist in the analysis of extreme temperature and precipitation events and the accompanying the large scale meteorological patterns across a time period of over four decades.
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Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| This dataset's landing page | HTML | Access the dataset landing page from the GES DISC website. | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | MERRA-2 Data Access – Quick Start Guide | Open resource |
| View an important notice for this dataset | HTML | Records of MERRA-2 Data Reprocessing and Service Changes | Open resource |
| View documentation related to this dataset | HTML | FAQs about MERRA-2 data access | Open resource |
| View this dataset's how-to documentation | HTML | Documents with exmaple on how to read and plot MERRA-2 data. | Open resource |
| Get a related visualization | PNG | M2SMNXPCT sample image: Percentile for total precipitation (PRECTOT), Jan 1980. | Open resource |
| View the primary investigator's documentation for this dataset | File Specification Document | Open resource | |
| The dataset's project home page | HTML | The NASA GMAO MERRA-2 Data Documentation and FAQs | Open resource |
| View this dataset's read me document | RREADME Document | Open resource | |
| Download this dataset through a directory map | HTML | Access the data via HTTPS. | Open resource |
| Use GRADS DATA SERVER (GDS) to access the dataset's data | HTML | The GrADS Data Server (GDS) is another form of OPeNDAP that provides subsetting and some analysis services across the Internet. | Open resource |
| Use OPeNDAP to access the dataset's data | HTML | Access the data via the OPeNDAP protocol. | Open resource |
| Google Scholar search results | HTML | Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. | Open resource |
| Download this dataset through Earthdata Search | HTML | Use the Earthdata Search to find and retrieve data sets across multiple data centers. | Open resource |