Four-kilometer long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the conterminous United States (CONUS), 1979-2020

CONUS404 is a unique, high-resolution hydro-climate dataset appropriate for forcing hydrological models and conducting meteorological analysis over the conterminous United States. CONUS404, so named because it covers the CONterminous United States for over 40 years at 4 km resolution, was produced by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulations run by NCAR as part of a collaboration with the USGS Water Mission Area. The CONUS404 includes 42 years of data (water years 1980-2021) and the spatial domain [https://rda.ucar.edu/OS/web/datasets/ds559.0/docs/CONUS404_BAMS_fig01.png] extends beyond the CONUS into Canada and Mexico, thereby capturing transboundary river basins and covering all contributing areas for CONUS surface waters.

The CONUS404 dataset, produced using WRF version 3.9.1.1, is the successor to the CONUS1 dataset in ds612.0 [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds612.0/] (Liu, et al., 2017) with improved representation of weather and climate conditions in the central United States due to the addition of a shallow groundwater module and several other improvements in the NOAH-Multiparameterization land surface model. It also uses a more up-to-date and higher-resolution reanalysis dataset (ERA5) as input and covers a longer period than CONUS1.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-10-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1986-11-30T23:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-10-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1986-11-30T23:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : USGS Archive of this dataset
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 0.00 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Rasmussen, Roy M
Liu, Changhai
Ikeda, Kyoko
Chen, Fei
Kim, Ju-Hye
Schneider, Timothy
Gochis, David
Dugger, Aubrey
Viger, Roland
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2023-01-10
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYY0-Y036
Alternate Identifier ds559.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2023-05-29T16:05:02-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds559.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Rasmussen, Roy M, Liu, Changhai, Ikeda, Kyoko, Chen, Fei, Kim, Ju-Hye, Schneider, Timothy, Gochis, David, Dugger, Aubrey, Viger, Roland. (2023). Four-kilometer long-term regional hydroclimate reanalysis over the conterminous United States (CONUS), 1979-2020. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYY0-Y036. Accessed 29 May 2023.

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