Dataset

Daymet

Commons Hosting
Climate Commons Hosting Status: 
Not applicable
Basic Information

Daymet is a collection of algorithms and computer software designed to interpolate and extrapolate from daily meteorological observations to produce gridded estimates of daily weather parameters. Weather parameters generated include daily surfaces of minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, humidity, and radiation produced on a 1 km x 1 km gridded surface over the conterminous United States, Mexico, and Southern Canada.

Creator: 
Peter E. Thornton
Publisher: 
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Subjects:
Collection:
Data Type:
Spatial Resolution: 
1 km
URL: 
http://daymet.ornl.gov/
Temporal Coverage: 
1980-2012
Parameters / Choices
A dataset often contains many geodata layers representing the same kind of measurement, but for different values of some parameters - time periods, models or scenarios, different species, etc. A value must be chosen for each such parameter in order to select a specific layer or raster which associated a single value with each geographic location (cell). The parameters or choices relevant to selecting layers from this dataset are described here.
Climate Models: 
(Historic Data)
Time Units: 
Daily