summary: This dataset reports the station-level daily weather observation data and the corresponding cross-validation results for three Daymet model parameters: minimum temperature (tmin), maximum temperature (tmax), and daily total precipitation (prcp) across continental North America (including Canada, the United States, and Mexico), Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Each data file contains the daily observations and cross-validation results for one parameter for each modeled region and each year, that is, from 1980 to the current calendar year for stations across continental North America and Hawaii and from 1950 to the current year for Puerto Rico. Also included are corresponding station metadata files listing every surface weather station used in Daymet processing for each parameter, region, and year and containing the station name, station identification, latitude, and longitude. The data are provided in netCDF and text formats. In Version 4 R1, all 2020 and 2021 files were updated to improve predictions especially in high-latitude areas. It was found that input files used for deriving 2020 and 2021 data had, for a significant portion of Canadian weather stations, missing daily variable readings for the month of January. NCEI has corrected issues with the Environment Canada ingest feed which led to the missing readings. The revised 2020 and 2021 Daymet V4 R1 files were derived with new GHCNd inputs. Files outside of 2020 and 2021 have not changed from the previous V4 release.
Contributors:
Thornton, M.M. (Investigator)
Wei, Y. (Investigator)
Thornton, P.E. (Investigator)
Shrestha, R. (Investigator)
Kao, S-C. (Investigator)
Keywords:
Daymet,weather,inputs,cross-validation,daily maximum temperature,daily minimum temperature,precipitation,Continental North America,Hawaii,Puerto Rico
Projects:
Daymet
Publishers:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center (ORNL DAAC)
Citation = "Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, and S-C. Kao. 2022. Daymet: Station-Level Inputs and Cross-Validation for North America, Version 4 R1. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2132"
Citation = "Thornton, P. E., R. Shrestha, M. Thornton, S.-C. Kao, Y. Wei, and B. E. Wilson. 2021. Gridded daily weather data for North America with comprehensive uncertainty quantification. Scientific Data 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00973-0"
Citation = "Thornton PE, Running SW, White MA. 1997. Generating surfaces of daily meteorological variables over large regions of complex terrain. Journal of Hydrology 190: 214-251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03128-9"
Citation = "Thornton, P.E., H. Hasenauer, and M.A. White. 2000. Simultaneous estimation of daily solar radiation and humidity from observed temperature and precipitation: An application over complex terrain in Austria. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 104:255-271"
Citation = "Thornton, P.E. and S.W. Running. 1999. An improved algorithm for estimating incident daily solar radiation from measurements of temperature, humidity, and precipitation. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology. 93:211-228"
