weather_FranceWest: Weather serie for West of France from NASA POWER agroclimatology
Description
This contemporary daily climate dataset for West of
France covers the period 1st January 1984 to 31 December
2011. The precipitation data is limited to the period
Jan-1997 Aug-2009, thus only 12 complete years of data
were available for analysis involving precipitation(1997
to 2009). It cover main part of West part of France
defined as a rectangle. The dataset was extrated from the
NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project which provide
agroclimatology dataset (Chandler et al., 2004). It was
funded through the NASA Earth Science Directorate Applied
Science Program This climate datasetcontains daily
estimates of precipitation, mean, minimum and maximum
temperature, relative humidity, dew point, solar
radiation and wind speed with global coverage at one
degree resolution (approximately 111 km at the equator).
The NASA POWER agroclimatology data are derived from
various sources: solar radiation from satellite
observations, meteorological data from the Goddard Earth
Observing System global assimilation model version 4
(GEOS-4), and precipitation from the Global Precipitation
Climate Project and Topical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
A full description can be found at
http://power.larc.nasa.gov/common/MethodologySSE6/POWER_Methodology_Content.htmlformat
a RangedData instance, 1 row per day.source
http://power.larc.nasa.gov/