WATCH forcing data (WFD) - 20th century SWdown (surface incident shortwave radiation) 1901-2001

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• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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The WATCH Forcing data is a twentieth century meteorological forcing dataset for land surface and hydrological models. It consists of three/six-hourly states of the weather for global half-degree land grid points. It was generated as part of the EU FP 6 project "WATCH" (WATer and global CHange") which ran from 2007-2011. The data was generated in 2 tranches with slightly different methodology: 1901-1957 and 1958-2001, but generally the dataset can be considered as continuous. More details regarding the generation process can be found in the associated WATCH technical report and paper in J. Hydrometeorology. To understand how the data grid is formed it is necessary to read the attached WFD-land-long-lat-z files either in NetCDF or DAT formats. The data covers land points only and excludes the Antarctica. SWdown or surface incident shortwave radiation is the surface incident shortwave radiation measured in W/m2 at 3 hourly resolution, based on the average over the next 3 hours at the surface and at 0.5 x 0.5 degrees spatial resolution.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2021-06-25T18:41:42
• Access contraints: Please reference the use of the WATCH forcing data in any work published using http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2011JHM1369.1
• Harvest GUID: 31dd5dd3-85b7-45f3-96a3-6e6023b0ad61
• Extent: Latitude: 90° to -90°
• Extent: Longitude: -180° to 180°
• Dataset reference date: 2011-08-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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