weather_EuropeEU: Weather serie for EuropeEU from NASA POWER agroclimatology
Description
This contemporary daily climate dataset for Europe covers
the period 1st January 2001 to 31 December 2010 with 10
complete years of data. It cover a part of Europe) with
an elevation less than 500m. The dataset was 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.html
Elevation (Altitude) were retrive from Aster Global
Digital Elevation Model by using the Webservice
api.geonames.org/astergdem? Sample are: ca 30m x 30m,
between 83N and 65S latitude. Result : a single number
giving the elevation in meters according to aster gdem,
ocean areas have been masked as "no data" and have been
assigned a value of -9999 Example
http://api.geonames.org/astergdem?lat=50.01&lng=10.2&username=demoformat
a RangedData instance, 1 row per day.source
http://power.larc.nasa.gov/ and
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp and
http://www.geonames.org/about.html