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    • NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Monthly Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century V1.0 (NEWS_WEB_MCLIM) at GES DISC

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century Dataset summarizes the original observationally-based mean fluxes of water and energy budget components during the first decade of the 21st Century, for each continent and ocean basin on monthly and annual scales as well as means over all oceans, all continents, and the globe. A careful accounting of uncertainty in the estimates is included. Also, it includes optimized versions of all component fluxes that simultaneously satisfy energy and water cycle balance constraints.

    The NEWS Climatology contains two data products: an annual climatology data product and a monthly climatology data product. This data product is the monthly climatology product. The climatology base period is roughly 1998-2010, where individual datasets cover various periods starting as early as 1998 and as late as 2002, not all extending to 2010.

    The continents and ocean basins boundaries map is used in this study to compute regional means. The ocean basin data was provided by Kyle Hilburn and Chelle Gentemann at Remote Sensing Systems. The land portion and some inland water bodies of the data are delineated into continents according to general definitions found in Wikipedia and relevant past studies.

    The data are distributed with four different units (1000 km^3/month, W/m^2, cm/month, and mm/day), in three formats (NetCDF, xlsx, and csv).

    Access & Use Information

    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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    References

    https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00555.1
    https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00556.1

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Continents and Ocean Basins for the data set of NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Monthly Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/GCDC/GESDISC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1233781717-GES_DISC
    Data First Published 2015-08-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2015-11-30
    Category NEWS, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Citation Matthew Rodell, Tristan LEcuyer, and Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, NASA/GSFC/HSL. 2015-10-01. NEWS_WEB_MCLIM. Version 1.0. NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Monthly Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century V1.0. Greenbelt, MD, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC). https://doi.org/10.5067/H3TJ8AZDTOXS. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datacollection/NEWS_WEB_MCLIM_1.0.html. Digital Science Data.
    Creator Matthew Rodell, Tristan LEcuyer, and Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, NASA/GSFC/HSL
    Data Presentation Form Digital Science Data
    Graphic Preview Description Continents and Ocean Basins for the data set of NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Monthly Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century
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    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00555.1, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00556.1
    Release Place Greenbelt, MD, USA
    Series Name NEWS_WEB_MCLIM
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    Temporal 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z/2010-12-31T23:59:59.999Z

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