← Back to DatasetsDataset

Downscaled precipitation and mean air temperature datasets; East-Taylor subbasin; 2008-2019; daily temporal resolution; 400 m spatial resolution.

Creators: Utkarsh MitalORCID, Dipankar Dwivedi, James Brown, Carl SteefelORCID
Year: 2023
DOI: 10.15485/1822259
License: CC-BY 4.0
Location: The spatial extent of the dataset is the bounding box incorporating the East Taylor subbasin (HUC 14020001) in Colorado. The gridded data covers the entire bounding box without any gaps.
Temporal extent: 2008-01-01 to 2019-12-30
Bounding box: 38.579°N to 39.087°N, -107.146°W to -106.287°W
Publisher: RMBL
Tags: Spatial Data, temperature, precipitation, PRISM, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT > 24 HOUR PRECIPITATION AMOUNT, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE, VARIABLE:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION, EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE, Geochemistry & Isotopes, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Geospatial Analysis

Description

This dataset provides gridded meteorological forcing data (specifically, daily precipitation and daily mean air temperature). The dataset has been generated by downscaling the Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) dataset from a spatial resolution of 800 m to 400 m. The time period is 2008-2019, and the mapped area is East Taylor subbasin in Upper Colorado. The data are in the form of NetCDF files, arranged by year. Compared to the PRISM dataset, the dates of the downscaled dataset are shifted backwards by one (e.g., downscaled data for May 25 corresponds to PRISM data for May 26). This temporal shifting makes the meteorological forcing correspond more closely to the prescribed date. The NetCDF format is a standard raster format that can be read using any Geographic Information System (GIS) software; plenty of modules exist in popular scripting languages (such as Python, R and Matlab) that can also be used to read NetCDF files. East_Taylor_Tavg_PRISM400 corresponds to mean air temperature. East_Taylor_Precip_PRISM400.zip corresponds to precipitation. Dataset update on March 9, 2022: Uploaded new data files that are identical to the earlier files but are now in the NetCDF format, arranged by year. Earlier, the files were in the GeoTiff format, arranged by date.

Local Knowledge Graph (8 entities)

Loading graph...