Pan-Arctic Land Surface (PALS) model drivers and outputs

This data set includes forcing data and output fields for multimodel simulations of pan-Arctic hydrology. All models were forced with European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) 40 Year Re-analysis (ERA-40) data for the period 1979-2002. The forcing fields comprise precipitation, 2-m air temperature, incoming solar and longwave radiation at the surface, 10-m winds and specific humidity at the lowest model level, the latter calculated from dewpoint, temperature and pressure. These are available every 6 h on a grid with an approximate 125 km spacing (the so-called N80 reduced Gaussian grid). Precipitation and radiation fluxes are provided as 6-h accumulations from 6-hr forecasts. Temperature, 10-m winds, pressure and dewpoint represent instantaneous values at the 6-h analysis time. The ERA-40 data on the N-80 grid were interpolated to the 100 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth grid (EASE grid) array.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2002-12-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2002-12-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 45.00000
Bounding Box West Long -180.00000
Bounding Box East Long 180.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : PALS_interpolation_README.pdf

Documentation #2 : PALS_multimodel_documentation.pdf

Documentation #3 : PALS_precip_assim_README.pdf
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Resource Format TAR: Unix Tape ARchive (TAR) Format File (application/x-tar)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 22740 MB
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Author Andrew G. Slater
Ted J. Bohn
James L. McCreight
Mark C. Serreze
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-05-17T09:08:45
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.231
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category geoscientificInformation
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:49:59Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.231
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Andrew G. Slater, Ted J. Bohn, James L. McCreight, Mark C. Serreze, Dennis P. Lettenmaier. (2011). Pan-Arctic Land Surface (PALS) model drivers and outputs. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.231. Accessed 22 November 2024.

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