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The High-resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset - HUMID

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| DOI: 10.5065/JF2T-6F61
 
Abstract:

The High-resolution Urban Meteorology for Impacts Dataset, HUMID, will be useful for studies examining spatial variability of near surface meteorology and the impacts of urban heat islands across many disciplines including epidemiology, ecology, and climatology. We have explicitly included representation of spatial meteorological variability over urban areas in the contiguous United States (CONUS) as compared to other observation-only gridded meteorology products by employing the High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation System (HRLDAS), which accounts for the fine-scale impacts of spatiotemporally varying land surfaces on weather. Further, we include in situ meteorological observations such as local mesonets to bias correct the HRLDAS output, creating a model-observation fusion product. The data spans 1 January 1981 to 31 December 2018, covering all of CONUS at 1 km grid spacing. The dataset includes daily maximum, minimum, and mean values for a variety of temperature estimates such as 2 m temperature, skin temperature, urban temperatures, as well as specific humidity and surface energy budget terms.

Temporal Range:
1981-01-01 to 2018-12-31
Variables:
Air Temperature Humidity Urban Heat Island
Data Types:
Grid
Data Contributors:
EMORY/SPH/BIOS
Department of Biostatics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
 |  UCAR/NCAR/RAL/HAP
Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Application Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
 |  YALE/YSPH
Yale School of Public Health, Yale University
 |  UNV-RENO/PUBLIC-HEALTH
School of Public Health, University of Nevada
 |  CU-Boulder/CRDDS
Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship, University of Colorado, Boulder
 |  UCAR/NCAR/RAL/AAP
Aviation Applications Program, Research Application Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
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