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

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 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 d612000 (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 Multi-parameterization 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:  1979-10-01T0000+00
    End:  2022-09-30T2300+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-10-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2022-09-30T2300+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 56.70413392784629
Bounding Box South Lat 17.630999999999993
Bounding Box West Long -137.8733543387321
Bounding Box East Long -58.463264355757815
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 4000.0 m
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : USGS Archive of this dataset

Related Resource #2 : Zarr format version of CONUS 404 available from Microsoft Planetary Computer

Related Resource #3 : Example of how to access Zarr format version of CONUS 404 from the Microsoft Planetary Computer Catalog
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 815989839.125 MB
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Author Rasmussen, Roy M
Liu, Changhai
Ikeda, Kyoko
Chen, Fei
Kim, Ju-Hye
Schneider, Timothy
Gochis, David
Dugger, Aubrey
Viger, Roland
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2023-01-10
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYY0-Y036
Alternate Identifier d559000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-17T01:05:43Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d559000
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). NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/ZYY0-Y036. Accessed 30 October 2025.

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