Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries

Daymet: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries

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.

Please cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions
Suggested Data Citation

  1. A list of suggested citations is at:
       http://daac.ornl.gov/Daymet/guides/Daymet_mosaics.html#Daymet_m_citation

Dataset DOIs
None
Hosted Climate Index Files
None
Data Access
  1. Daymet data
Usage Restrictions
None

Key Figures

Climate Data Guide Image: Daymet

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

Other Information

Earth system components and main variables
Atmosphere, Maximum Air Temperature, Minimum Air Temperature, Precipitation, Radiation, Water Vapor, Cryosphere, Snow Water Equivalent
Type of data product
None
Dataset collections
None

Years of record
to
Metadata ID
None
Data time period extended
Yes, data set is extended
Timestep
Climatology, Daily
Domain
North America
Formats:
netCDF, ascii
Input Data
None
Vertical Levels:
Surface Data Set
Missing Data Flag
None
Ocean or Land
Land Only
Spatial Resolution

1km x 1km in 2x2 tiles

Model Resolution (reanalysis)
None
Data Assimilation Method
None
Model Vintage (reanalysis)
None