Input data set: Historical observed climate data

Description:

Daily-resolution observed climate data on a global (land and ocean) 0.5°x0.5° lat-lon grid.

GSWP3
Derived from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 3 (GSWP3), based on the reanalysis data set 20CR and using the bias targets GPCC, GPCP, CPC-Unified, CRU and SRB. This data set covers the period 1901‐2010.

GSWP3-EWEMBI
EWEMBI global meteorological forcing data processed for ISIMIP2a (http://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2019.004). Contains EWEMBI data and data from the GSWP3 dataset, developed by Hyungjun Kim with support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (16H06291). This data set covers the period 1979-2016.

GSWP3-W5E5
W5E5 global meteorological forcing data processed for ISIMIP2a/ISIMIP3a (http://doi.org/10.5880/pik.2019.023). Contains W5E5 data and data from the GSWP3 dataset, developed by Hyungjun Kim with support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (16H06291). This data set covers the period 1979-2016.

PGMFD v2.1 (Princeton)
Derived from the Terrestrial Hydrology Group at Princeton University, based on the reanalysis data set NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis I and using the bias targets CRU, SRB, TRMM, GPCP & WMO and validated against GSWP2. This data set covers the period 1901‐2012.

WATCH (WFD)
Derived from the WATCH Project, based on the reanalysis data set ERA-40 and using the bias target GPCC. The data set covers the period 1901‐2001.

WATCH-WFDEI
Based on the reanalysis data set ERA-Interim and using the bias target GPCC. The data set covers the period 1901‐2012, where the data for 1901-1978 are taken from WFD, and from 1979 onwards from WFDEI.GPCC

GSWP3
When referring to the GSWP3 data set, the following paper should be cited: Dirmeyer, P. A., Gao, X., Zhao, M., Guo, Z., Oki, T. and Hanasaki, N. (2006) GSWP-2: Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87(10), 1381–98.

GSWP3-EWEMBI
When referring to the EWEMBI data set, the following paper should be cited: Lange, S. (2019). Earth2Observe, WFDEI and ERA-Interim data Merged and Bias-corrected for ISIMIP (EWEMBI) v1.1. GFZ Data Services. doi:10.5880/pik.2019.004
When referring to the GSWP3 data set, the following paper should be cited: Dirmeyer, P. A., Gao, X., Zhao, M., Guo, Z., Oki, T. and Hanasaki, N. (2006). GSWP-2: Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87(10), 1381–98.

GSWP3-W5E5
When referring to the W5E5 data set, the following papers should be cited: Lange, S. (2019). WFDE5 over land merged with ERA5 over the ocean (W5E5). V. 1.0. doi:10.5880/pik.2019.023
and
Cucchi, M., Weedon, G. P., Amici, A., Bellouin, N., Lange, S., Müller Schmied, H., Hersbach, H. and Buontempo, C. (2020) WFDE5: bias-adjusted ERA5 reanalysis data for impact studies. Earth System Science Data, 12, 2097–2120.
When referring to the GSWP3 data set, the following paper should be cited: Dirmeyer, P. A., Gao, X., Zhao, M., Guo, Z., Oki, T. and Hanasaki, N. (2006). GSWP-2: Multimodel Analysis and Implications for Our Perception of the Land Surface. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87(10), 1381–98.

PGMFD v2.1
When referring to this data set, the following paper should be cited: Sheffield, J., G. Goteti, and E. F. Wood, 2006: Development of a 50-yr high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling, J. Climate, 19 (13), 3088-3111
http://hydrology.princeton.edu/data.pgf.php

WATCH (WFD)
When referring to this data set, the following paper should be cited:
Weedon, G.P., S.S. Gomes, P.P. Viterbo, W.J. Shuttleworth, E.E. Blyth, H.H. Österle, J.C. Adam, N.N. Bellouin, O.O. Boucher, and M.M. Best, 2011: Creation of the WATCH Forcing Data and Its Use to Assess Global and Regional Reference Crop Evaporation over Land during the Twentieth Century. J. Hydrometeor., 12, 823–848, doi: 10.1175/2011JHM1369.1
http://www.waterandclimatechange.eu/about/watch-forcing-data-20th-century

WATCH-WFDEI
*Note* discontinuity in the data exists at the transition from WATCH to WFDEI, and results must be interpreted with caution.
When referring to this data set, the following papers should be cited:
Weedon, G.P., Gomes, S., Viterbo, P., Österle, H., Adam, J.C., Bellouin, N., Boucher, O., and Best, M., 2010. The WATCH Forcing Data 1958-2001: a meteorological forcing dataset for land surface- and hydrological models. WATCH Tech. Rep. 22, 41p (available at www.eu-watch.org/publications , PDF).
http://www.waterandclimatechange.eu/about/watch-forcing-data-20th-century
and
Weedon, G. P., G. Balsamo, N. Bellouin, S. Gomes, M. J. Best, and P. Viterbo (2014), The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA-Interim reanalysis data, Water Resour. Res., 50, 7505–7514, doi:10.1002/2014WR015638.
http://www.waterandclimatechange.eu/about/watch-forcing-data-20th-century