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Terrestrial Water Cycle Data Records for MEaSUREs

Entry ID: Water_Cycle_MEaSUREs_ATBD

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Summary

Abstract: To develop long term, consistent Earth System Data Records (ESDRs) for terrestrial water cycle states and variables by updating and extending previously funded Pathfinder data set activities to the investigators, and by making available the data set to the scientific community and data users via a state-of-the-art internet web-portal. surface meteorology (precipitation, air temperature, humidity and wind), surface downward radiation (solar and longwave) derived and/or assimilated fluxes and storages such as surface soil moisture storage, total basin water storage, snow water equivalent, storage in large lakes, reservoirs, and wetlands, evapotranspiration, and surface runoff.

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 180.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Lizhi Miao

Dataset Title: Terrestrial Water Cycle Data Records

Version: Version 1.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1948-01-01

Stop Date: 2006-12-31

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL LAND

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS

LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY

CRYOSPHERE > GLACIERS/ICE SHEETS > GLACIER ELEVATION/ICE SHEET ELEVATION

ISO Topic Category

ELEVATION

GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION

INLAND WATERS

Quality While the digital models have a nominal spatial resolution of 5 km, such high resolution is not strictly justified by the original data density over all parts of the ice sheet.

Use Constraints The following protocols were generally agreed by the participants of the BEDMAP consortium as providing adequate safeguards for data-collectors, whilst allowing other BEDMAP partners and, eventually, the wider community the opportunity to use BEDMAP data for research purposes. The guidelines adopted would be broadly similar to those adopted by the ADMAP consortium for magnetic anomaly data (ADMAP, ...