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Gridded Climate Datasets: NOAA's nClimGrid - Monthly

The nClimGrid-monthly dataset is a gridded dataset derived from spatially interpolating data from the Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), including precipitation (monthly totals) and temperature (monthly average, minimum and maximum), from 1895 to the present.

Data Coverage
United States
Period of Record
1895 - Present
File Format
text (ascii)
netcdf-4
Data Type
Model

Gridded Surface Meteorological (gridMET) Dataset

gridMET is a gridded dataset of daily high-spatial resolution (~4-km, 1/24th degree) surface meteorological data using PRISM and NLDAS-2, covering the contiguous U.S. from 1979-present.

Data Coverage
Contiguous U.S.
Period of Record
1979 - Present
File Format
netcdf-3

Gridded U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM)

The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) is a weekly map, released each Thursday, to show the location and intensity of drought across the country.

Data Coverage
Puerto Rico
United States
Period of Record
2000-Present
File Format
images
json
geotiff
Data Type
Model

Groundwater and Soil Moisture Conditions from GRACE Data Assimilation

Groundwater and soil moisture drought indicators based on terrestrial water storage observations derived from GRACE satellite data and integrated with other observations, produced each week by NASA.

Data Coverage
Global
Period of Record
1948–2014
File Format
images
pdf
xml
other
Data Type
Model
Satellite