Source: Princeton University Name: Princeton Global Forcings Period: Jan-1948 - Dec-2016 Times: 3-hourly, daily, monthly Coverage: Global Resolution: 0.25-degree, 0.5-degree, 1.0-degree Grid: Latitude-longitude Type: Observational-Reanalysis hybrid Related Sites: http://hydrology.princeton.edu/data/index.html Publications: Sheffield, J., G. Goteti, and E. F. Wood, Development of a 50-yr high-resolution global dataset of meteorological forcings for land surface modeling, J. Climate, 19 (13), 3088-3111. Variables: Precipitation (prcp) Air temperature at 2m above ground (tas) Downward longwave at surface (dlwrf) Downward shortwave at surface (dswrf) Surface pressure (pres) Specific humidity (shum) Windspeed (wind) Formats: NetCDF History: Original data version 1 (V1) and updates (V2, V2.2, V3) Volume: 3hourly: 1.0deg: 722 - 724 MB/year/variable; daily: 90 MB/year/variable; monthly: 3 MB/year/variable 0.5deg: 0.5-2.0 GB/year/variable; daily: 0.1-0.3 GB/year/variable; monthly: 0.001 GB/year/variable 0.25deg: 5-8 GB/year/variable; daily: 0.5-1.0 GB/year/variable; monthly: 0.01 GB/year/variable Date Created: Mon Sep 11 14:37:43 EDT 2006 Change Log: 3) Tue May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2018 V3 added to website (see v3/Readme.txt) 2) Mon Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014 V2 added to website (see v2/Readme.txt) 1) Mon Sep 11 14:37:43 EDT 2006 V1 added to website (see v1/Readme.txt)