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    • NACP: Climate Data Inputs (3-hourly) for Community Land Model, Western USA, 1979-2015

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset provides sub-daily, high-resolution, climate data inputs including temperature, precipitation, near surface specific humidity, incoming short-wave radiation, and near-surface wind speed over 11 states of the western USA. States included are Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. These data were derived for use in the Community Land Model (CLM v4.5) and are at 3-hourly temporal and 4 x 4 km spatial resolutions for the 1979 through 2015 time period. The source for observational data was METDATA (now called GRIDMET), at a daily resolution. Modeling efforts using these data estimated annual carbon stocks, fluxes, and productivity across the western United States.

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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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    Dates

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

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Four variables for the same 3-hour timestep, December 8, 2015, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM, a) precipitation flux (kg m-2 s-1) b) air temperature (K) c) shortwave radiation flux (W m-2) d) specific humidity. Source: western_USA_precipitation_3hr_2015-12.nc4

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2517357574-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2020-11-18
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-17
    Category NACP, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Rupp, D., and P. Buotte. 2020. NACP: Climate Data Inputs (3-hourly) for Community Land Model, Western USA, 1979-2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1682
    Graphic Preview Description Four variables for the same 3-hour timestep, December 8, 2015, 12:00 AM to 3:00 AM, a) precipitation flux (kg m-2 s-1) b) air temperature (K) c) shortwave radiation flux (W m-2) d) specific humidity. Source: western_USA_precipitation_3hr_2015-12.nc4
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/NACP/guides/HighRes_ClimateData_Western_US_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id 428845f1-50e7-490e-96a0-ac0b561dc854
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1682
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -124.81 31.19 -101.98 49.02
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 229105cfdc160c483e96f4bb96224373d9fd7094363481c7204397705b000cdc
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z/2016-01-01T23:59:59Z

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