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NLDAS VIC Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V002
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- Type of release
- a one-off release of a single dataset
- Data Licence
- Not Applicable
- Content Licence
- Creative Commons CCZero
- Verification
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- Release Date
- 8 July 2015
- Modified Date
- 31 August 2015
- Update Frequency
- irregular
- Publishers
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Keywords
- atmosphere, atmospheric-radiation, atmospheric-water-vapor, biosphere, cryosphere, earth-science, land-surface, national-geospatial-data-asset, ngda, precipitation, snow-ice, soils, surface-radiative-properties, surface-thermal-properties, surface-water, terrestrial-hydrosphere, vegetation
- Identifier
- nldas-vic-land-surface-model-l4-hourly-0-125-x-0-125-degree-v002-11310
- Landing Page
- http://reverb.echo.nasa.gov/reverb?selected=C209271225-GSFCS4PA
- Maintainers
- PLEASE CONTACT GES DISC HELP DESK SUPPORT GROUP gsfc-help-disc@lists.nasa.gov
- Theme
- geospatial
- Language
- en-US
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Description
This data set contains a series of land surface parameters simulated from the VIC land-surface model (LSM) for Phase 2 of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-2). The data are in 1/8th degree grid spacing and range from Jan 1979 to the present. The temporal resolution is hourly. The file format is WMO GRIB-1. Details about the NLDAS-2 configuration of the VIC LSM can be found in Xia et al. (2012). The version of the VIC model for the NLDAS-2 VIC data available from the NASA GES DISC is VIC-4.0.3; this version of the VIC model is the same as used in Sheffield et al. (2003). The VIC model was developed at the University of Washington and Princeton University as a macroscale, semi-distributed, grid-based, hydrologic model [Liang et al., 1994; Wood et al., 1997]. The full water and energy balance modes of VIC were used for NLDAS-2. VIC uses three soil layers, with thicknesses that vary spatially. The root zone depends on the vegetation type and its root distribution, and can span all three soil layers. The VIC model includes a two-layer energy balance snow model [Cherkauer et al., 2003]. The VIC LSM was forced by the hourly NLDAS-2 forcing "File A" files, and contains forty-three fields. The data set applies a user-defined parameter table to indicate the contents and parameter number. The GRIBTAB file (http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hydrology/grib_tabs/gribtab_NLDAS_VIC.002.txt) shows a list of parameters for this data set, along with their Product Definition Section (PDS) IDs and units. For information about the vertical layers of the Soil Moisture Content (PDS 086), Soil Temperature (PDS 085), and Liquid Soil Moisture Content (PDS 151), please see the README Document at ftp://hydro1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/NLDAS/README.NLDAS2.pdf or the GrADS ctl file at ftp://hydro1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/gds/NLDAS/NLDAS_VIC0125_H.002.ctl.
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