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This page provides access to a variety of gridded meteorological datasets, including temperature, precipitation, wind, humidity, and radiation.
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Datasets cover various spatial and temporal resolutions, from global to continental (US and North America) scales, and from hourly to daily.
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Data sources include NASA's GLDAS, FLDAS, MERRA-2, and NLDAS, NOAA's CDR, GFS, and RTMA, and the University of Idaho's GRIDMET.
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These datasets are valuable for climate studies, weather forecasting, agricultural monitoring, and other Earth science applications.
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Several datasets are designed for specific use cases, such as food security assessments (FLDAS) or ocean surface properties (NOAA CDR).
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ECMWF Near-Realtime IFS Atmospheric Forecasts
This dataset contains 15-day forecasts of the atmospheric model variables generated by the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) at 0.25 degree resolution. We refer to these as Near-Realtime (NRT) because new products are released twice a day after the release of the ECMWF realtime forecast … climate dewpoint ecmwf forecast global humidity -
FLDAS: Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Land Data Assimilation System
The FLDAS dataset (McNally et al. 2017), was designed to assist with food security assessments in data-sparse, developing country settings. It includes information on many climate-related variables including moisture content, humidity, evapotranspiration, average soil temperature, total precipitation rate, etc. There are multiple different FLDAS datasets; … climate cryosphere evapotranspiration humidity ldas monthly -
GFS: Global Forecast System 384-Hour Predicted Atmosphere Data
The Global Forecast System (GFS) is a weather forecast model produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The GFS dataset consists of selected model outputs (described below) as gridded forecast variables. The 384-hour forecasts, with 1-hour (up to 120 hours) and 3-hour (after … climate cloud flux forecast geophysical humidity -
GLDAS-2.1: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical -
GLDAS-2.2: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical -
GRIDMET: University of Idaho Gridded Surface Meteorological Dataset
The Gridded Surface Meteorological dataset provides high spatial resolution (~4-km) daily surface fields of temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity and radiation across the contiguous United States from 1979. The dataset blends the high resolution spatial data from PRISM with the high temporal resolution data from the … climate gridmet humidity merced metdata precipitation -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXSLV: Single-Level Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXSLV (or tavg1_2d_slv_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged 2-dimensional data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of meteorology diagnostics at popularly used vertical levels, such as air temperature at 2-meter (or at 10-meter, 850hPa, 500 hPa, 250hPa), … atmosphere climate humidity merra nasa pressure -
NLDAS-2: North American Land Data Assimilation System Forcing Fields
Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) combines multiple sources of observations (such as precipitation gauge data, satellite data, and radar precipitation measurements) to produce estimates of climatological properties at or near the Earth''s surface. This dataset is the primary (default) forcing file (File A) for Phase … climate evaporation forcing geophysical hourly humidity -
NOAA CDR: Ocean Near-Surface Atmospheric Properties, Version 2
The Ocean Near-Surface Atmospheric Properties dataset is part of the NOAA Ocean Surface Bundle (OSB) and provides a high quality Climate Data Record (CDR) of air temperature, wind speed, and specific humidity over ice-free ocean surfaces. These atmospheric properties are calculated based on brightness temperature … atmospheric cdr hourly humidity noaa ocean -
RTMA: Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis
The Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) is a high-spatial and temporal resolution analysis for near-surface weather conditions. This dataset includes hourly analyses at 2.5 km for CONUS. atmosphere climate cloud geophysical humidity noaa -
Reprocessed GLDAS-2.0: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical