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Daymet: Annual Climate Summaries on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4 R1

Metadata Updated: May 6, 2024

This dataset provides annual climate summaries derived from Daymet Version 4 R1 daily data at a 1 km x 1 km spatial resolution for five Daymet variables: minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, vapor pressure, and snow water equivalent. Annual averages are provided for minimum and maximum temperature, vapor pressure, and snow water equivalent, and annual totals are provided for the precipitation variable. Each data file is provided as a single year by variable and covers the same period of record as the Daymet V4 R1 daily data. The annual climatology files are derived from the larger datasets of daily weather parameters produced on a 1 km x 1 km grid for North America (including Canada, the United States, and Mexico), Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Separate annual files are provided for the land areas of continental North America, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Data are distributed in standardized Climate and Forecast (CF)-compliant netCDF (.nc) and Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF (.tif) file formats. In Version 4 R1, all 2020 and 2021 files (60 total) were updated to improve predictions especially in high-latitude areas. It was found that input files used for deriving 2020 and 2021 data had, for a significant portion of Canadian weather stations, missing daily variable readings for the month of January. NCEI has corrected issues with the Environment Canada ingest feed which led to the missing readings. The revised 2020 and 2021 Daymet V4 R1 files were derived with new GHCNd inputs. Files outside of 2020 and 2021 have not changed from the previous V4 release.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 6, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Daymet V4 annual climatologies for 2019 for maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure.

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
Metadata Updated Date May 6, 2024
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2531982907-ORNL_CLOUD
Data First Published 2024-04-23
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2024-04-25
Category Daymet, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Citation Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, and S-C. Kao. 2022. Daymet: Annual 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/2130
Graphic Preview Description Daymet V4 annual climatologies for 2019 for maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure.
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Temporal 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z/2023-12-31T23:59:59Z

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