Terrestrial Water Budget Data Archive

The dataset authors have created a terrestrial water budget data archive on a 1-degree grid. They identified 13332 global stations with complete records and created 30-year (1950-1979) climatological means for each month of the year for air temperature, precipitation, evaporation, soil moisture, and snow cover. These monthly climatological means were then interpolated to the 1-degree gridpoints. This data set contains both the gridpoint individual station data.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-02-01T0000+00
    End:  1980-01-01T0000+00

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-02-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 1980-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.0
Bounding Box South Lat -90.0
Bounding Box West Long -180.0
Bounding Box East Long 180.0
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 1 degree
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO GRIB1
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 35.36 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Author Willmott, Cort J.
Rowe, Clinton M.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1990-09-11
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/QTDE-MD26
Alternate Identifier d237000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:54Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d237000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Willmott, Cort J., Rowe, Clinton M.. (1990). Terrestrial Water Budget Data Archive. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/QTDE-MD26. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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