JISAO data

University of Delaware global surface air temperature and precipitation climatology and monthly grids, 1900-2008

Produced by Kenji Matsuura and Cort Willmott.


Introduction | Data



Canada and continental US domain.
ENSO-related November through April surface air temperature anomalies.

Climatological analyses for western North America | Mexico and Central America | South America | Africa

These data sets are a subset of the global and regional surface air temperature and precipitation data sets developed at the University of Delaware (UD). The different data sets are based on a variety of analysis techniques, and you need to read the documentation at the UD WWW site to understand the analysis method that is employed. Questions about the data sets should be addressed to Kenji Matsuura ( kenjisan@udel.edu ).

All errors in the netCDF files are due to me. The data is provided in both its native 0.5-degree latitude-longitude resolution, and in a 1-degree latitude-longitude resolution.

The data:

Global precipitation climatology (version 3.01):

  • At JISAO: /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_precip/ud/precipudclim.nc
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (62 Mb)
  • Documentation
  • Analyses for western North America, Mexico and Central America, South America, and Africa.
  • Version 3.02 in ASCII

    Global precipitation monthly grids for 1900-2008: (version 2.01; downloaded 3 July 2009)

  • At JISAO, these files are "precipud19002008.nc" and "precipud19002008.1deg.nc" on /home/disk/margaret/data/gridded_land_precip/ud/
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (678 Mb).
  • One-degree latitude-longitude resolution in netCDF format (170 Mb).
  • Documentation

    Arctic precipitation monthly grids for 1960-90:
    This data set contains observations from Canada and the former Soviet Union that are not included in the global data sets. There is also an Arctic climatology at the UD.

  • At JISAO, these files are "preciparcticud6090.nc" and "preciparcticud6090.1deg.nc" on /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_precip/ud/
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (48Mb).
  • One-degree latitude-longitude resolution netCDF (12Mb).
  • Documentation

    Global surface air temperature climatology (version 3.01):

  • At JISAO: /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_land_temp/ud/sfctempudclim.nc
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (62 Mb)
  • Documentation
  • Version 3.02 in ASCII

    Global surface air temperature monthly grids for 1900-2008: (version 2.01; downloaded 3 July 2009)

  • At JISAO, these files are "sfctempud19002008.nc" and "sfctempud19002008.1deg.nc" on /home/disk/margaret/data/gridded_land_temp/ud/
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (678 Mb)
  • A 1-degree latitude-longitude resolution version in netCDF (170 Mb).
  • Documentation

    Arctic surface air temperature monthly grids for 1960-90:
    This data set contains observations from Canada and the former Soviet Union that are not included in the global data sets. There is also an Arctic climatology at the UD.

  • At JISAO, these files are "sfctemparcticud6090.nc" and "sfctemparcticud6090.1deg.nc" on /home/disk/muggy/data/gridded_land_temp/ud/
  • ASCII
  • netCDF (48Mb).
  • One-degree latitude-longitude resolution in netCDF (12Mb).
  • Documentation

    
    

    July 2009
    Todd Mitchell ( mitchell@atmos.washington.edu )
    JISAO data