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Highlights from the Literature

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Asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) relies on pollinators for movement of its pollen, and evidence suggests that its populations are declining. Image courtesy of Pixabay.

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Daymet daily surface weather and climatological summaries have been cited in nearly 300 peer-reviewed articles. Read about how this popular data product is used in research.

Daymet Data Now Available in AppEEARS

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The Land Processes DAAC distributes NASA Earth Observing System data. They developed the AppEEARS tool to provide access to a wide range of data from instruments including MODIS, VIIRS, SMAP, and now Daymet.

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Daymet Version 3 daily weather data for North America is now available through the AppEEARS subsetting tool from NASA's Land Processes DAAC.

Daymet 2018 Data Now Available

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Daymet provides high-resolution surface meteorology data for North America. The figure shows annual data for the year 2018; Left: Mean maximum daily temperature, Middle: Total precipitation, Right: Mean minimum daily temperature. Daymet data is archived and distributed by the ORNL DAAC.

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Daymet weather and climate data for North America are now available for the years 1980 - 2018.

Daymet Climatologies Updated

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Daymet V3 average annual minimum temperature for 1980 and 2015 for a subset of the Daymet domain in Alaska and western Canada.

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Daymet V3 annual and monthly climatologies for minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure have been updated to include year 2017.

Calculate Climate Anomalies from Daymet

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Climate anomaly (right panel) in minimum daily temperature for year 1990 compared to the long-term normal (left panel). The climate normal and anomaly were calculated for a single 2-degree tile from the Daymet dataset.

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New Jupyter notebook tutorials show how to access and visualize Daymet climate data from within Python and how to calculate climate normals and anomalies.