Gridded western North America historical climate data

Description:

This Western North America-based data set utilizes a variant of the NRCanMet gridding procedure, but with different input predictors and statistical methods. It is recognized as an improvement to NRCanMet, where overlap between the two datasets occurs in space and time.
A detailed description and validation of this dataset is available here.

Last Updated:
2017

Primary Developer:
PCIC

Timeframe:
1945 to 2012

Spatial Resolution:
500m

Temporal Resolution:
daily

Spatial Extent:
Western North America

Climate Parameters:

maximum temperature
minimum temperature
total precipitation

Approximate Dataset Volume/Primary Format:
500 GB/netCDF*
(*data available in subsets of full volume) GB=gigabyte TB=terabyte

Usage:

None at present.

Website:
https://data.pacificclimate.org/portal/gridded_observations/map/

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