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Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries

Climate Data Guide Image: Daymet

Developed by Dr. Peter E Thornton to fulfill the need for daily climatological data necessary for plant growth model inputs, Daymet generates daily, gridded surfaces of temperature, precipitation, humidity, and radiation over large regions and takes into account areas of complex terrain.

Key Strengths:

  • Very high resolution over area covered.

Years of Record

1980/01 to 2015/12
temporal metadataID:

Formats

Timestep

Climatology | Daily

Data Time Period Extended?

yes, data set is extended

Domain

North America

Spatial Resolution

1km x 1km in 2x2 tiles

Ocean or Land

Land Only

Vertical Levels

Surface Data Set

Earth system components and main variables

Atmosphere, Maximum Air Temperature, Minimum Air Temperature, Precipitation, Radiation, Water Vapor, Cryosphere, Snow Water Equivalent

Suggested Data Citation

A list of suggested citations is at:

   http://daac.ornl.gov/Daymet/guides/Daymet_mosaics.html#Daymet_m_citation

Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.

  1. Daymet data

Key Figures

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Captions
Climate Data Guide Image: Daymet Daily total precipitation: Daymet tile number 12296 for year 2010 and day 182. (Climate Data Guide; D. Shea)

Cite this page

National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 27 Feb 2017. "The Climate Data Guide: Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/daymet-daily-surface-weather-and-climatological-summaries.

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