University of Idaho Daily Meteorological data for continental US

Description

This archive contains daily surface meteorological (METDATA) data for the Continental United States at 4-km (1/24-deg) resolution. The meteorological variables are maximum/minimum temperature, precipitation amount and duration, maximum/minimum relative humidity,downward shortwave solar radiation, wind speed and direction, and specific humidity. The method utilized here combines desirable spatial attributes of gridded climate data from PRISM and desirable temporal attributes of regional-scale reanalysis and daily gauge-based precipitation from NLDAS-2 to derive a spatially and temporally complete high resolution gridded dataset of surface meteorological variables for the continental US for 1979-present. Validation of this data suggests that it can serve as a suitable surrogate for landscape-scale ecological modeling across vast unmonitored areas of the US. For more information visit: http://metdata.northwestknowledge.net/

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 THREDDS OPeNDAP https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/UofIMETDATA
55 The metadata original source https://data.doi.gov/harvest/object/3e8bffdc-05cd-4838-bce6-b0b0d205b543
21 This URL provides a standard OPeNDAP html interface for selecting data from this dataset. Change the extension to .info for a description of the dataset. https://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/dodsC/UofIMETDATA.html
0 http://metdata.northwestknowledge.net/

Tags

  • gridded-meteorological-data
  • precipitation
  • maximum-relative-humidity
  • climatologymeteorologyatmosphere
  • precipitation-duration
  • downward-shortwave-solar-radiation
  • wind-direction
  • climate
  • minimum-relative-humidity
  • specific-humidity
  • wind-speed
  • minimum-temperature
  • maximum-temperature

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