AI-generated Key Takeaways
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Numerous datasets provide climate and precipitation information at various spatial and temporal resolutions globally and for specific regions like the US.
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Datasets cover reanalysis, forecasts, historical observations, and downscaled climate projections.
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Precipitation and temperature are common variables, along with other climate parameters like humidity, evapotranspiration, and drought indices.
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Several international and national organizations like ECMWF, NOAA, NASA, JAXA, and academic institutions are sources for this data.
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CFSR: Climate Forecast System Reanalysis
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was designed and executed as a global, high-resolution, coupled atmosphere-ocean-land surface-sea ice system to provide the best estimate of the state of these coupled domains over the 32-year period of record from January … climate daylight flux forecast geophysical ncep -
CFSV2: NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2, 6-Hourly Products
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System (CFS) is a fully coupled model representing the interaction between the Earth's atmosphere, oceans, land, and sea ice. CFS was developed at the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC) at NCEP. The operational CFS was upgraded to … climate daylight flux forecast geophysical ncep -
CHIRPS Daily: Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation With Station Data (Version 2.0 Final)
Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. chg climate geophysical precipitation ucsb weather -
CHIRPS Pentad: Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation With Station Data (Version 2.0 Final)
Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) is a 30+ year quasi-global rainfall dataset. CHIRPS incorporates 0.05° resolution satellite imagery with in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring. chg climate geophysical precipitation ucsb weather -
CPC Global Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Daily Precipitation
The CPC Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Global Daily Precipitation dataset offers daily precipitation estimates over land from 1979 to the present. Developed by NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC), it leverages an optimal interpolation technique to combine data from a global network of rain gauges, with … daily noaa precipitation weather -
CPC Global Unified Temperature
This dataset provides a gridded analysis of daily surface air temperature over global land areas, including daily maximum (Tmax), minimum (Tmin) temperatures. Spanning from 1979 to the present, the data is presented on 0.5-degree latitude/longitude grids, aligning with the resolution of CPC's gauge-based global daily … climate daily noaa precipitation weather -
Daymet V4: Daily Surface Weather and Climatological Summaries
Daymet V4 provides gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for Continental North America, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico (Data for Puerto Rico is available starting in 1950). It is derived from selected meteorological station data and various supporting data sources. Compared to the previous version, Daymet … climate daily daylight flux geophysical nasa -
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 -
ERA5 Daily Aggregates - Latest Climate Reanalysis Produced by ECMWF / Copernicus Climate Change Service
ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate. Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset. ERA5 replaces its predecessor, the ERA-Interim reanalysis. ERA5 DAILY provides aggregated values for each day for … climate copernicus dewpoint ecmwf era5 precipitation -
ERA5 Hourly - ECMWF Climate Reanalysis
ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate. It is produced by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) at ECMWF. Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset using the laws of … atmosphere climate copernicus ecmwf era5 hourly -
ERA5 Monthly Aggregates - Latest Climate Reanalysis Produced by ECMWF / Copernicus Climate Change Service
ERA5 is the fifth generation ECMWF atmospheric reanalysis of the global climate. Reanalysis combines model data with observations from across the world into a globally complete and consistent dataset. ERA5 replaces its predecessor, the ERA-Interim reanalysis. ERA5 MONTHLY provides aggregated values for each month for … climate copernicus dewpoint ecmwf era5 precipitation -
ERA5-Land Daily Aggregated - ECMWF Climate Reanalysis
ERA5-Land is a reanalysis dataset providing a consistent view of the evolution of land variables over several decades at an enhanced resolution compared to ERA5. ERA5-Land has been produced by replaying the land component of the ECMWF ERA5 climate reanalysis. Reanalysis combines model data with … cds climate copernicus ecmwf era5-land evaporation -
ERA5-Land Hourly - ECMWF Climate Reanalysis
ERA5-Land is a reanalysis dataset providing a consistent view of the evolution of land variables over several decades at an enhanced resolution compared to ERA5. ERA5-Land has been produced by replaying the land component of the ECMWF ERA5 climate reanalysis. Reanalysis combines model data with … cds climate copernicus ecmwf era5-land evaporation -
ERA5-Land Monthly Aggregated - ECMWF Climate Reanalysis
ERA5-Land is a reanalysis dataset providing a consistent view of the evolution of land variables over several decades at an enhanced resolution compared to ERA5. ERA5-Land has been produced by replaying the land component of the ECMWF ERA5 climate reanalysis. Reanalysis combines model data with … cds climate copernicus ecmwf era5-land evaporation -
ERA5-Land Monthly Averaged by Hour of Day - ECMWF Climate Reanalysis
ERA5-Land is a reanalysis dataset providing a consistent view of the evolution of land variables over several decades at an enhanced resolution compared to ERA5. ERA5-Land has been produced by replaying the land component of the ECMWF ERA5 climate reanalysis. Reanalysis combines model data with … cds climate copernicus ecmwf era5-land evaporation -
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 -
GPM: Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Release 07
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) is the unified algorithm that provides rainfall estimates combining data from all passive-microwave instruments in the GPM … climate geophysical gpm imerg jaxa nasa -
GPM: Monthly Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) v6
IMERG-Final version "06" stopped being produced in September, 2021. Version "07" is expected to be released in September 2022 Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for … climate geophysical gpm imerg jaxa monthly -
GPM: Monthly Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) vRelease 07
Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is an international satellite mission to provide next-generation observations of rain and snow worldwide every three hours. The Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) is the unified algorithm that provides rainfall estimates combining data from all passive-microwave instruments in the GPM … climate geophysical gpm imerg jaxa monthly -
GRIDMET DROUGHT: CONUS Drought Indices
This dataset contains drought indices derived from the 4-km daily Gridded Surface Meteorological (GRIDMET) dataset. The drought indices provided include the standardized precipitation index (SPI), the evaporative drought demand index (EDDI), the standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI), the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and Palmer … climate conus crop drought evapotranspiration 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 -
GSMaP Operational: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation - V6
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) provides a global hourly rain rate with a 0.1 x 0.1 degree resolution. GSMaP is a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which provides global precipitation observations at three hour intervals. Values are estimated using multi-band passive … climate geophysical gpm hourly jaxa precipitation -
GSMaP Operational: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation - V7
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) provides a global hourly rain rate with a 0.1 x 0.1 degree resolution. GSMaP is a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which provides global precipitation observations at three hour intervals. Values are estimated using multi-band passive … climate geophysical gpm hourly jaxa precipitation -
GSMaP Operational: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation - V8
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) provides a global hourly rain rate with a 0.1 x 0.1 degree resolution. GSMaP is a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which provides global precipitation observations at three hour intervals. Values are estimated using multi-band passive … climate geophysical gpm hourly jaxa precipitation -
GSMaP Reanalysis: Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) provides a global hourly rain rate with a 0.1 x 0.1 degree resolution. GSMaP is a product of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission, which provides global precipitation observations at three hour intervals. Values are estimated using multi-band passive … climate geophysical gpm hourly jaxa precipitation -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXFLX: Surface Flux Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXFLX (or tavg1_2d_flx_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of assimilated surface flux diagnostics, such as total precipitation, bias corrected total precipitation, surface air temperature, surface specific humidity, surface wind speed, … climate merra precipitation sea-salt so2 so4 -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXLND: Land Surface Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXLND (or tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of land surface diagnostics, such a baseflow flux, runoff, surface soil wetness, root zone soil wetness, water at surface layer, water at … climate cryosphere evaporation ice merra precipitation -
NEX-DCP30: Ensemble Stats for NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections
The NASA NEX-DCP30 dataset is comprised of downscaled climate scenarios for the conterminous United States that are derived from the General Circulation Model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5, see Taylor et al. 2012) and across the four greenhouse … cag climate cmip5 geophysical ipcc nasa -
NEX-DCP30: NASA Earth Exchange Downscaled Climate Projections
The NASA NEX-DCP30 dataset is comprised of downscaled climate scenarios for the conterminous United States that are derived from the General Circulation Model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5, see Taylor et al. 2012) and across the four greenhouse … cag climate cmip5 geophysical ipcc nasa -
NEX-GDDP-CMIP6: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Climate Projections
The NEX-GDDP-CMIP6 dataset is comprised of global downscaled climate scenarios derived from the General Circulation Model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6, see Thrasher et al. 2022) and across two of the four "Tier 1" greenhouse gas emissions scenarios … cag climate gddp geophysical ipcc nasa -
NEX-GDDP: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Climate Projections
The NASA NEX-GDDP dataset is comprised of downscaled climate scenarios for the globe that are derived from the General Circulation Model (GCM) runs conducted under the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5, see Taylor et al. 2012) and across two of the four greenhouse … cag climate cmip5 gddp geophysical ipcc -
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 -
OpenLandMap Precipitation Monthly
Monthly precipitation in mm at 1 km resolution based on SM2RAIN-ASCAT 2007-2018, IMERG, CHELSA Climate, and WorldClim. Downscaled to 1 km resolution using gdalwarp (cubic splines) and an average between WorldClim, CHELSA Climate, and IMERG monthly product (see, e.g, "3B-MO-L.GIS.IMERG.20180601.V05B.tif"). 3x higher weight is given … envirometrix imerg monthly opengeohub openlandmap precipitation -
PERSIANN-CDR: Precipitation Estimation From Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks-Climate Data Record
PERSIANN-CDR is a daily quasi-global precipitation product that spans the period from 1983-01-01 to present. The data is produced quarterly, with a typical lag of three months. The product is developed by the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Irvine … cdr climate geophysical noaa precipitation weather -
PRISM Daily Spatial Climate Dataset AN81d
The PRISM daily and monthly datasets are gridded climate datasets for the conterminous United States, produced by the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University. Grids are developed using PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model). PRISM interpolation routines simulate how weather and climate vary … climate daily geophysical oregonstate precipitation pressure -
PRISM Long-Term Average Climate Dataset Norm91m
The PRISM daily and monthly datasets are gridded climate datasets for the conterminous United States, produced by the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University. Grids are developed using PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model). PRISM interpolation routines simulate how weather and climate vary … climate geophysical oregonstate precipitation pressure prism -
PRISM Monthly Spatial Climate Dataset AN81m
The PRISM daily and monthly datasets are gridded climate datasets for the conterminous United States, produced by the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University. Grids are developed using PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model). PRISM interpolation routines simulate how weather and climate vary … climate geophysical monthly oregonstate precipitation pressure -
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 -
SPEIbase: Standardised Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index database, Version 2.10
The Global SPEI database (SPEIbase) offers long-time robust information about drought conditions at the global scale, with a 0.5 degree pixel size and monthly cadence. It provides SPEI time scales from 1 to 48 months. The Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) expresses, as a standardized variate … climate climate-change drought evapotranspiration global monthly -
TRMM 3B42: 3-Hourly Precipitation Estimates
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a joint mission between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) designed to monitor and study tropical rainfall. The 34B2 product contains a gridded, TRMM-adjusted, merged infrared precipitation (mm/hr) and RMS precipitation-error estimate, with a 3-hour temporal … 3-hourly climate geophysical jaxa nasa precipitation -
TRMM 3B43: Monthly Precipitation Estimates
This collection is no longer being updated. See IMERG monthly This dataset algorithmically merges microwave data from multiple satellites, including SSMI, SSMIS, MHS, AMSU-B and AMSR-E, each inter-calibrated to the TRMM Combined Instrument. Algorithm 3B43 is executed once per calendar month to produce the single, … climate geophysical jaxa nasa precipitation rainfall -
TerraClimate: Monthly Climate and Climatic Water Balance for Global Terrestrial Surfaces, University of Idaho
TerraClimate is a dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance for global terrestrial surfaces. It uses climatically aided interpolation, combining high-spatial resolution climatological normals from the WorldClim dataset, with coarser spatial resolution, but time-varying data from CRU Ts4.0 and the Japanese 55-year Reanalysis (JRA55). … climate drought evapotranspiration geophysical global merced -
The Climate Hazards Center (CHC) Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CHC-CMIP6)
CHC-CMIP6 was explicitly developed to support the analysis of climate-related hazards over the recent past and in the near-future. This climate projection dataset contains global, daily gridded data for the observational (1983-2016) and projection (2030 and 2050) periods to be used in the identification and … climate geophysical precipitation ucsb weather -
United States Drought Monitor
The U.S. Drought Monitor is a map released every Thursday, showing parts of the U.S. that are in drought. The map uses five classifications: abnormally dry (D0), showing areas that may be going into or are coming out of drought, and four levels of drought: … community-dataset drought noaa precipitation sat-io usda -
WeatherNext Gen Forecasts
WeatherNext Gen is an experimental dataset of global medium-range ensemble weather forecasts produced by an operational version of Google DeepMind's diffusion-based ensemble weather model. The experimental dataset includes real-time and historic data. Real-time data is any data that relates to a time that is no … climate forecast gcp-public-data-weathernext precipitation publisher-dataset temperature -
WeatherNext Graph Forecasts
WeatherNext Graph is an experimental dataset of global medium-range weather forecasts produced by an operational version of Google DeepMind's graphical neural network weather model. The experimental dataset includes real-time and historic data. Real-time data is any data that relates to a time that is no … climate forecast gcp-public-data-weathernext precipitation publisher-dataset temperature -
WorldClim BIO Variables V1
WorldClim V1 Bioclim provides bioclimatic variables that are derived from the monthly temperature and rainfall in order to generate more biologically meaningful values. The bioclimatic variables represent annual trends (e.g., mean annual temperature, annual precipitation), seasonality (e.g., annual range in temperature and precipitation), and extreme … berkeley climate monthly precipitation temperature weather -
WorldClim Climatology V1
WorldClim version 1 has average monthly global climate data for minimum, mean, and maximum temperature and for precipitation. WorldClim version 1 was developed by Robert J. Hijmans, Susan Cameron, and Juan Parra, at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with … berkeley climate monthly precipitation temperature weather