Identification

Title

WATer and global CHange (WATCH) Forcing Data (WFD) - 20th Century

Alternative title(s)

d314001

Abstract

New global sub-daily meteorological forcing data are provided for use with land surface and hydrological-models. The data are derived from the ERA-40 reanalysis product via sequential interpolation to half-degree resolution, elevation correction and monthly-scale adjustments based on CRU (corrected-temperature, diurnal temperature range, cloud-cover) and GPCC (precipitation) monthly observations combined with new corrections for varying atmospheric aerosol-loading and separate precipitation gauge corrections for rainfall and snowfall. The WATCH Forcing data is a twentieth century meteorological forcing dataset for land surface and hydrological models. It consists of three of 6-hourly states of the weather for global half-degree land grid points. It was generated as part of the EU FP 6 project "WATCH" (WATer and global CHange") which ran from 2007-2011. The data was generated in 2 time periods with slightly different methodology: 1901-1957 and 1958-2001, but generally the dataset can be considered as continuous. More details regarding the generation process can be found in the associated WATCH technical report and paper in J. Hydrometeorology. The data covers land points only and excludes the Antarctica.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d314001/

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description: Related Link

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https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/d314001/dataaccess/

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Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

CLM-LSM > Common Land Model (CLM) Land Surface Model

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-23

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION RATE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2024-07-24

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-180

East bounding longitude

180

North bounding latitude

90

South bounding latitude

-90

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1901-01-01T00:00:00Z

End position

2001-12-31T22:30:00Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-02-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1833

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

chifan@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NCAR Research Data Archive

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

rdahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://rda.ucar.edu/

name: NCAR Research Data Archive

description: The Research Data Archive (RDA), managed by the Data Engineering and Curation Section (DECS) of the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NCAR, contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.

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responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-08-04T02:10:57Z

Metadata language