Data · collection
Gridded Soil Moisture and Land Surface Evapotranspiration Global Fields for Climate Models
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Monthly fields of soil moisture are widely used in numerical weather predictions and climate simulations with general circulation models (GCMs).
Description
Gridded global fields of normal monthly soil moisture and land surface evapotranspiration were derived with a simple water budget model that has precipitation and potential evapotranspiration as inputs. Precipitation was observed from ground stations (Jaeger, 1976) and potential evapotranspiration was derived from observed surface air temperatures (Spangler and Jenne, NCAR, 1984) using Thornthwaite regression equations.
All of the input fields are gridded onto a 4 deg. latitude x 5 deg. longitude global grid. All of the input fields and several derived fields are available (except sensible heat and radiation). Output fields are valid for land points only.
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The data is available via anonymous FTP: "ftp://climate1.gsfc.nasa.gov/walker/mintz/" The folder includes data files, documentation files, and Fortran source code.
Note
The primary investigator, Dr. Yale Mintz, passed away in April 1991.
Links
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214584560-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214584560-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Evapotranspiration · General Circulation Model · Soil Moisture/Water Content
Provenance · 1 source records, 9 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214584560-SCIOPS | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/atmospheric-water-vapor/water-vapor-processes/evapotranspiration | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/soils/soil-moisture-water-content | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:gcm | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |