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Daymet Version 4 Data Products highlighted by NASA's Earthdata

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A regional view of Daymet V4 daily total precipitation over 2 days during the time period that Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August of 2017.

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Daymet Version 4's improved algorithm and sensor timing and bias corrections result in more accurate and precise data.

Daymet Developer Remains Among Web of Science's Most Highly Cited

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Dr. Peter Thornton studies the interactions of land ecosystems with other components of the Earth's climate system including biogeochemical and physical land-atmosphere feedbacks, and interactions with human systems. 

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For the third consecutive year, Dr. Peter Thornton has been recognized for exceptional research.

THREDDS NetCDF Subsetting Service Bug Fixed

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Unidata's THREDDS Data Server (TDS) is a web server that provides metadata and data access for scientific datasets, using a variety of remote data access protocols.

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A bug has been fixed in the THREDDS Data Server (TDS) NetCDF Subsetting Service (NCSS) that may, in rare cases, have returned incorrect results.

Recent NASA Article Highlights Daymet

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Each black dot on this digital elevation map (DEM) represents a surface weather station in continental North America providing Daymet data in 2010. Additional stations providing Daymet data are located in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.

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Daymet derived annual average of daily minimum temperature, 1980 (left) and 2019 (right), for a subset of North America. Images are scaled from -20 to +20 degrees C.

Explaining Vegetation Greening Trends in Yellowstone

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Trends in maximum annual NDVI for natural vegetation within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) from 1989 to 2014 (Emmett et al. 2019).

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Daymet and North American Carbon Program (NACP) data were used to study Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) trends across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.