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.
A list of suggested citations is at:
http://daac.ornl.gov/Daymet/guides/Daymet_mosaics.html#Daymet_m_citation
National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 24 Oct 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.
Funding: NSF | National Science Foundation
Based at: NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research
A Project of: Climate Analysis Section in Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory
Created by: Climate Data Guide PIs and Staff