A globally calibrated scheme for generating daily meteorology  from monthly statistics: Global-WGEN (GWGEN) v1.0

Sommer, Philipp S.; Kaplan, Jed O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3771-2017

Articles | Volume 10, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3771-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-3771-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 10

Model description paper

|

16 Oct 2017

Model description paper |

| 16 Oct 2017

A globally calibrated scheme for generating daily meteorology from monthly statistics: Global-WGEN (GWGEN) v1.0

Philipp S. Sommer and Jed O. Kaplan

Data sets

Global Historical Climatology Network - Daily (GHCN-Daily), Version 3.22 M. J. Menne, I. Durre, B. Korzeniewski, S. McNeill, K. Thomas, X. Yin, S. Anthony, R. Ray, R. S. Vose, B. E. Gleason, and T. G. Houston https://doi.org/10.7289/V5D21VHZ

Extended Edited Synoptic Cloud Reports from Ships and Land Stations Over the Globe, 1952-1996 (with Ship data updated through 2008) C. J. Hahn and S. G. Warren https://doi.org/10.3334/CDIAC/cli.ndp026c

Model code and software

GWGEN v1.0.2: A global weather generator for daily data P. S. Sommer and J. O. Kaplan https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.889213

Short summary

We present GWGEN, a computer program for converting monthly climate data into estimates of daily weather, using statistical methods. The GWGEN weather generator program was developed using a global database of more than 5 million observations of daily weather, and it simulates daily values of minimum and maximum temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, and wind speed. GWGEN may be used in a range of applications, for example, in global vegetation, crop, soil erosion, or hydrological models.