GLDAS
Datasets:
- GLDAS Dataset
Description: Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) ingests satellite and ground-based observational data products. Using advanced land surface modeling and data assimilation techniques, it generates optimal fields of land surface states and fluxes. The GLDAS-2.1 simulation started on January 1, 2000 using the conditions from the GLDAS-2.0 simulation. This simulation was forced with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS) atmospheric analysis fields (Derber et al., 1991), the disaggregated Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) precipitation fields (Adler et al., 2003), and the Air Force Weather Agency's AGRicultural METeorological modeling system (AGRMET) radiation fields which became available for March 1, 2001 onwards.
Organization: NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Website: NASA GLDAS Website
Google Earth Engine:
Spatial resolution: 24-km grid (1/4-deg)
Time Span: Jan 1, 2000 - Present
Variables:
- Evapotranspiration
- Surface Runoff
- Total Runoff
- Surface Soil Moisture (0-10cm)
- Root Zone Soil Moisture (0-100cm)
- Snow depth
- Snow water equivalent
Terms of Use:
- Distribution of data from the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) is funded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD). Consistent with NASA Earth Science Data and Information Policy, data from the GES DISC archive are available free to the user community. For more information visit the GES DISC Data Policy page.
References:
- Rodell, M., P.R. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, K. Mitchell, C.-J. Meng, K. Arsenault, B. Cosgrove, J. Radakovich, M. Bosilovich, J.K. Entin, J.P. Walker, D. Lohmann, and D. Toll, The Global Land Data Assimilation System, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85(3), 381-394, 2004. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26216951