National Land Data Assimilation Product V2 - Water Year 1985

The NLDAS2 forcing dataset at 1km resolution and a 1 hour time step. This dataset was used to force the conus1_baseline_85 simulation. This dataset is bilinearly interpolated to the ParFlow CONUS1 grid. The original NLDAS2 dataset can be found here.

Dataset Name: NLDAS2_85

Data Collection or Processing Notes:

Bilinearly interpolated from the native resolution to 1km.

Citations:

Please refer to the following citations for more information on this dataset and cite them if you use the data

Extent and Resolution:

  • Available Date Range: 10/1/84 to 9/30/85

  • Grid: conus1

    • Spacial Resolution: 1000 meters

    • XY Grid Spacial Extent: 3342 x 1888

    • LatLon Spacial Exent: -121.47939483437318, 31.651836025255015, -76.09875469594509, 50.49802132270979

    • Origin (meters): -1885055.4995, -604957.0654

    • Projection: +proj=lcc +lat_1=33 +lat_2=45 +lon_0=-96.0 +lat_0=39 +a=6378137.0 +b=6356752.31

Variables

This describes the available variables of the dataset. Use the dataset, variables and temporal_resolution in python access functions as described in the Working with Gridded Data, and Working with Point Observations.

Atmospheric Variables

variable

description

temporal_resolution

units

aggregation

grid

3D

precipitation

Precipitation

daily, monthly

mm

sum

conus1

no

downward_longwave

Downward longwave radiation

daily

w/m2

mean

conus1

no

downward_shortwave

Downward shortwave radiation

daily

w/m2

mean

conus1

no

specific_humidity

Specific humidity

daily

kg/kg

mean

conus1

no

air_temp

Air temperature

daily, monthly

K

min, max, mean

conus1

no

east_windspeed

Zonal windspeed

daily

m/s

mean

conus1

no

north_windspeed

Meridional windspeed

daily

m/s

mean

conus1

no

atmospheric_pressure

Atmospheric pressure

daily

pa

mean

conus1

no