Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Skip to content
  • Feedback

    • Sub-daily Climate Forcings for Puerto Rico

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    To support high spatial- and temporal-resolution land surface modeling, this dataset provides 3-hourly time step historic weather forcing at 1-km spatial resolution for Puerto Rico and surrounding islands. The latest Daymet V4 data provides gridded historic daily weather observation at 1-km spatial resolution from 1950 to present. Using sub-daily temporal information from two meteorological reanalysis datasets (GSWP3 and NARR), Daymet was further temporally downscaled to 3-hourly time steps and provided in the format required for land surface model simulations. The process of temporal downscaling preserves the relative magnitude in each sub-daily time step from GSWP3 and NARR while maintaining the total and average values from Daymet at each day. These result in two blended datasets: 1950-2014 Daymet-GSWP3 and 1979-2019 Daymet-NARR. Available variables include surface air temperature, precipitation, specific humidity, shortwave and longwave radiation, wind speed, and pressure. These data can be used as a high-resolution meteorological forcing dataset to support high-resolution land surface modeling where accurate meteorological forcing datasets built from historic observations and/or reanalysis datasets are desirable.

    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.

    Downloads & Resources

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date September 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Graphic Preview

    Images of annual climatologies derived from sub-daily variables of a) surface temperature, b) precipitation, c) shortwave radiation, d) specific humidity and e) surface pressure for Puerto Rico and surrounding islands.

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2751553403-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2023-08-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-08-16
    Category Daymet, 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 Kao, S-C., M.M. Thornton, P.E. Thornton, R. Shrestha, and A.P. Walker. 2022. Sub-daily Climate Forcings for Puerto Rico. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1977
    Graphic Preview Description Images of annual climatologies derived from sub-daily variables of a) surface temperature, b) precipitation, c) shortwave radiation, d) specific humidity and e) surface pressure for Puerto Rico and surrounding islands.
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/DAYMET/guides/Daymet_SubDaily_Puerto_Rico_Fig1.png
    Harvest Object Id bdfe4653-8f7a-4cf2-b518-d433f46171ba
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1977
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -67.99 16.84 -64.1 19.94
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c6d35bc6e5934d7902f92971eeec3aefaa4b470514fecbd9ce2b8fb60698e99a
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z/2019-12-31T23:59:59Z

    Didn't find what you're looking for? Suggest a dataset here.