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Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily

v1p0 original daily from Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa: High resolution daily meteorological data for northern/west/east Africa.

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High resolution daily meteorological data for northern/west/east Africa

Datasets and variables

Downward Surface Longwave Radiation	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily dlwrf[ X Y \| T]
Downward Surface Shortwave Radiation	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily dswrf[ X Y \| T]
Precipitation	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily prec 0.0[ X Y Z \| T]
Surface Pressure	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily pres[ X Y \| T]
Specific humidity	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily shum 0.0[ X Y Z \| T]
Mean temperature	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily tas[ X Y \| T]
Maximum temperature	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily tmax[ X Y \| T]
Minimum temperature	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily tmin[ X Y \| T]
Windspeed	Princeton hydrology metdata NWE_Africa v1p0 original daily wind[ X Y \| T]

Independent Variables (Grids)

time (time)	grid: /T (days since 1960-01-01 12:00:00) ordered (1 Jan 1979) to (31 Dec 2005) by 1.0 N= 9862 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude)	grid: /X (degree_east) ordered (19.95W) to (59.95E) by 0.1 N= 800 pts :grid
Latitude (latitude)	grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (4.95S) to (24.95N) by 0.1 N= 300 pts :grid
Depth	grid: /Z (unitless) ordered [ (0.0)] :grid

Other Info

comment: This dataset is described in Chaney and Sheffield (2012) (Chaney, N., and J. Sheffield, 2012: High Resolution Gridded Daily Meteorological Data for Africa: Dataset Development and Analysis of Trends in Means and Extremes, J. Climate, to be submitted) and is related to the original global version reported in Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006). Updates/changes include: i. African continent domain; ii. extension to 2005; iii. assimilation of available GHCN/GSOD daily station observations; iv. step change detection and correction for observational datasets; v. improved sampling procedure for correction of rain day statistics; vi. use of latest versions of CRU, SRB and TRMM products; vii. improved consistency between specific and relative humidity and air temperature. See Sheffield et al., J. Climate (2006) for details of the observations used and the bias correction and downscaling methodology.
contact: Justin Sheffield ([email protected])
institution: Princeton University
source: Forcings are a hybrid of NCEP/NCAR reanalysis and observations
title: Princeton University Hydroclimatology Group Bias Corrected African (1979-2005) Meteorological Forcing Dataset V1.0
history: Thu Feb 7 13:23:02 EST 2013: created by JS using convert2alma.sh

References

Chaney, N., and J. Sheffield, 2013: Spatial analysis of trends in climatic extremes with a high resolution gridded daily meteorological data set over Central Africa, to be submitted.

Sheffield, J., G. Goteti, and E. F. Wood, 2006: Development of a 50-yr high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling, J. Climate, 19 (13), 3088-3111.

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