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Livneh daily CONUS near-surface gridded meteorological and derived hydrometeorological data.

 

Brief Description:

• This CONUS daily dataset from 1915 to 2011 is 1/16 resolution. The dataset variables have been generated using the Variable Infiltration Capacity VIC hydrologic model v.4.1.2.c which was driven with the companion meteorological data.

Temporal Coverage: Daily means from 1915/01 to 2011/12 Monthly means from 1915/01 to 2011/12 Daily long term means using 1981/01 to 2010/12 Monthly long term means using 1981/01 to 2010/12 Spatial Coverage: .0625 degree latitude x .0625 degree longitude CONUS grid (922x444). 21.21875-52.90625, 235.4688E-293.0312E

Levels:

• Surface

Update Schedule:

• None

Variables:

Meteorological Variables(station variables input) Flux Variables(model generated)

Web Tools:

• Monthly Value composite plotting tool (means, anomalies, long term means)

Usage Restrictions:

• None

Detailed Description:

• These meteorological data represent approximately 20,000 NCDC stations across CONUS, (plus a smaller number of Enviro-Can stations for the Canadian portion of the Columbia river) gridded to 211687 points at a 1/16 degree spatial resolution, running from 1 Jan 1915 - 31 Dec 2011 and with these fields:
• Related Datasets at PSL
  • CPC Unified Gauge-Based Analysis of Daily Precipitation over CONUS
  • NCEP/Reanalysis

Caveats:

• See paper

Related File Naming & Structure Information:

File Names:

• var.time.stat.nc   (In directory: /Datasets/LIVNEH/

Dataset Format and Size:

• PSL netCDF4-classic NetCDF (annual files) for all files.

Missing Data:

• There are no missing grids except those outside the CONUS and part of Canada. Grids with no data are stored as 1e+20 for means and -9.96921e+36 for LTMs.

Citation:

• Livneh B., E.A. Rosenberg, C. Lin, B. Nijssen, V. Mishra, K.M. Andreadis, E.P. Maurer, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2013: A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions, Journal of Climate, 26, 9384–9392.
• Please note: If you acquire Livneh data products from PSL, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as Livneh data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at / in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSL to justify keeping the Livneh data set freely available online in the future. Thank you!

References:

• Livneh B., E.A. Rosenberg, C. Lin, B. Nijssen, V. Mishra, K.M. Andreadis, E.P. Maurer, and D.P. Lettenmaier, 2013: A Long-Term Hydrologically Based Dataset of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States: Update and Extensions, Journal of Climate, 26, 9384–9392.

Original Source:

• CU/CIRES
• Documentation: CU/CIRES Water and Climate Research Group..
• Documentation: ftp://ftp.hydro.washington.edu/pub/blivneh/CONUS/.

Contact:

• Physical Sciences Laboratory: Data Management
  NOAA/ESRL/PSL
  325 Broadway
  Boulder, CO 80305-3328
  psl.data@noaa.gov