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access_dt: 2013-04-15T00:00:00
attributes: 'daily precipitation, maximum temperature, minimum temperature, wind speed'
cite_metadata: "Daily gridded meteorological data obtained from the Surface Water Modeling group at the University of Washington from their web site at http://www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Data/gridded/, the development of which is described by Maurer et al. (2002):\r\n\r\nMaurer, E.P., A.W. Wood, J.C. Adam, D.P. Lettenmaier, and B. Nijssen, 2002, A Long-Term Hydrologically-Based Data Set of Land Surface Fluxes and States for the Conterminous United States, J. Climate 15, 3237-3251"
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Data Producer : University of Washington Surface Water Modeling Group '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/18041.yaml
    id: 18041
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: University of Washington Surface Water Modeling Group
      identifier: university-washington-surface-water-modeling-group
      name: University of Washington Surface Water Modeling Group
      organization_type_identifier: research
      type: organization
      url: http://www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Data/gridded/
    organization_uri: /organization/university-washington-surface-water-modeling-group
    person: {}
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    role_type_identifier: data_producer
    uri: /contributor/18041
data_qualifier: ~
description: 'A model-derived dataset of land surface states and fluxes is presented for the conterminous United States and portions of Canada and Mexico. The dataset spans the period 1950–2000, and is at a 3-h time step with a spatial resolution of ⅛ degree. The data are distinct from reanalysis products in that precipitation is a gridded product derived directly from observations, and both the land surface water and energy budgets balance at every time step. The surface forcings include precipitation and air temperature (both gridded from observations), and derived downward solar and longwave radiation, vapor pressure deficit, and wind. Simulated runoff is shown to match observations quite well over large river basins'
description_attribution: ~
display_name: 'Daily 1/8-degree gridded meteorological data [1 Jan 1949 - 31 Dec 2010]'
doi: ~
end_time: ~
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nca3-maurer-r201304.yaml
identifier: nca3-maurer-r201304
instrument_measurements: []
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lat_min: ~
lon_max: ~
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name: 'Daily 1/8-degree gridded meteorological data [1 Jan 1949 - 31 Dec 2010]'
native_id: 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<3237:ALTHBD>2.0.CO;2
parents: []
processing_level: ~
publication_year: 2011
references: []
release_dt: 2011-03-11T00:00:00
scale: ~
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spatial_extent: 'maximum_latitude: 51.68; minimum_latitude: 21.44; maximum_longitude: -65.74; minimum_longitude: -127.97;'
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spatial_res: ~
start_time: ~
temporal_extent: 1949-01-01T00:00:00 2000-07-31T23:59:59
temporal_resolution: ~
type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nca3-maurer-r201304
url: http://www.engr.scu.edu/~emaurer/gridded_obs/index_gridded_obs.html
variables: ~
version: TBD
vertical_extent: ~