Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-ornldaac-994

ISLSCP II UNH/GRDC Composite Monthly Runoff

ABSTRACT: The University of New Hampshire (UNH)/Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) composite runoff data combines simulated water balance model runoff estimates derived from climate forcing with monitored river discharge. It can be viewed as a data assimilation applied in a water balance model context (conceptually similar to the commonly used 4DDA techniques used in meteorological modeling). Such a data assimilation scheme preserves the spatial specificity of the water balance calculations while constrained by the more accurate discharge measurement. There are 11 data files in this data set and 1 changemap file which shows the differences between the ISLSCP II land/water mask and the original data set.

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Identified by : ISLSCPII_COMP_RUNOFF

This dataset was released on January 01, 2011.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1986 to December 31, 1995.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/994
Also known as :

• dataset oai:mercury-ops2.ornl.gov:ornldaac_994 (ornl lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury.ornl.gov:ornldaac_994 (ornl lexicon)