Data Information Page from ArcticRIMS (http://RIMS.unh.edu) Title: DAILY TEMPERATURE, TOPOGRAPHICALLY ADJUSTED (Serreze, Oelke) Description: NCEP sigma 0.995 level temperature [K] with topography correction, new RIMS landmask with 39926 pixels. Classification: Land Based, Climate Author/PI: Vorosmarty, Charles, Richard Lammers, Mark Serreze and Christoph Oelke Contact Information for original gridded daily time step data: Mark Serreze Senior Research Scientist 449 UCB, RL-2, #223 National Snow and Ice Data Center University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0449 E-mail: serreze@kryos.colorado.edu Tel: 303-492-2963 Web: http://nsidc.org/research/bios/serreze.html Christoph Oelke National Snow and Ice Data Center University of Colorado Boulder Colorado 80309-0449 USA Contact Information for all spatially and temporally aggregated data in RIMS: Charles Vorosmarty Department of Civil Engineering The City College of New York Steinman Hall, Rm T-513 140th Street & Convent Ave, NY NY 10031 USA Email: cvorosmarty@ccny.cuny.edu Tel: (212) 650-7042 Web: http://crest.ccny.cuny.edu/ Richard Lammers Water Systems Analysis Group Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Morse Hall, Room 211 8 College Road University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824-3525 USA Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu Tel: (603) 862-4699 Web: http://www.wsag.unh.edu/ Temporal Coverage Begin Date (year-month-day): 1960-01-01 End Date (year-month-day): 2006-11-30 Spatial Coverage: Corner coordinates in Ease Projection (Units: Meters form N.P.) (Description at http://nsidc.org/data/ease/ease_grid.html) Minimum X: -4875633.612 m Minimum Y: -4875633.612 m Maximum X: 4875633.612 m Maximum Y: 4875633.612 m Corner coordinates in Geographical projection (Units: Degrees) (Description at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection) Minimum latitude: 45.0 Minimum longitude: -180.0 Maximum latitude: 90.0 Maximum longitude: 180.0 Units: Degrees K Aggregation Method: average General Methods: Original temperature values are corrected for the difference in topography between NCEP 2.5x2.5 deg elevation and DEM-based 25x25 km elevation on EASE grid. The atmospheric lapse rate is calculated from NCEP higher pressure level data with the condition that the used level has to be at least 750m above the height of the (old) surface value. A correction is made for topography differences of up to 500m (above which - some high mountain peaks - 500m is taken as the maximal difference. A constant height of 40m for the (old) sigma 0.995 temperatures is assumed. The final topography-corrected values also take into account these 40m and would be 'real' surface temperatures. Minimum and maximum daily temperatures are set to -60 C and +35 C, respectively. Comments: References: C. Oelke, NSIDC, 31 May 2003. Arctic RIMS Contact: Richard Lammers Water Systems Analysis Group Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space Morse Hall University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 Phone: (603) 862-4699 Fax: (603) 862-0587 Email: Richard.Lammers@unh.edu Web: http://wsag.unh.edu Data Archiving: This ArcticRIMS data set has been permanently stored to the ARCSS Data Archive at NCAR/EOL (http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/arcss) with the support of National Science Foundation grants (NSF) OPP-0230243 and Humans and Hydrology at High Latitudes (NSF) ARC-0531354