Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2
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Resource Abstract:
This data set provides Daymet output data as mosaicked gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, including
continuous surfaces of day length, precipitation, shortwave radiation, snow water equivalent, maximum air temperature, minimum
air temperature, and water vapor pressure. The Daymet data product was derived from selected meteorological station data by
interpolation and extrapolation algorithms.The data product covers the period January 1, 1980 to December 31 of the most recently
processed calendar year for Canada and the United States. Data for additional calendar years will become available by June
of the following year. For Mexico, data are available for the period January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2009.Data are available
on a daily time step at a 1-km x 1-km spatial resolution in Lambert Conformal Conic projection with a spatial extent that
covers the conterminous United States, Mexico, and Southern Canada as meteorological station density allows. Data are assembled
by parameter and year with each yearly file containing a time dimension of 365 days.Data are provided in Climate and Forecast
(CF) metadata convention compliant (version 1.4) netCDF file formats.
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Title Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 2
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