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
)
    

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