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High Mountain Asia COAWST Hourly 4km Regional Climate Model Simulations, Version 1
Data set id:
HMA_RCMO_1H
DOI: 10.5067/H2NQVMSH58IW
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release

Overview

This data product contains either hourly accumulated or hourly snapshots of modeled data in the High Mountain Asia region, generated by the Coupled-Ocean-Atmosphere-Waves-Sediment Transport (COAWST) modeling system (operated as a regional climate model). These modeled data span 15 years and have been used by the NASA High Mountain Asia Team (HiMAT) to research water resource use.
Parameter(s):
ALBEDO
LIQUID PRECIPITATION
LONGWAVE RADIATION
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
WIND SPEED
Platform(s):
MODELS
Sensor(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Data Format(s):
netCDF-3
Temporal Coverage:
  • 1 October 1999 to 1 October 2014
Temporal Resolution:
  • 1 hour
Spatial Resolution:
  • 4 km
  • 4 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
  • WGS 84
    EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
  • N:
    46.34996
    S:
    20.96392
    E:
    120.8316
    W:
    49.1684
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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