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

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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

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee Report', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 May 2017
- AC1: 'Response to RC1: The global weather generator GWGEN (v1.0)', Philipp Sommer, 30 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Report', Anonymous Referee #2, 12 May 2017
- AC2: 'Response to RC2: The global weather generator GWGEN (v1.0)', Philipp Sommer, 30 Jun 2017
EC1: 'Summary and interpretation of reviews', Chiel van Heerwaarden, 13 May 2017
- AC3: 'Reply to EC1: The global weather generator GWGEN (v1.0)', Philipp Sommer, 30 Jun 2017

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Philipp S. Sommer on behalf of the Authors (28 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Jul 2017) by Chiel van Heerwaarden

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (22 Aug 2017)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (22 Aug 2017) by Chiel van Heerwaarden

AR by Philipp S. Sommer on behalf of the Authors (24 Aug 2017) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (25 Aug 2017) by Chiel van Heerwaarden

AR by Philipp S. Sommer on behalf of the Authors (29 Aug 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (07 Sep 2017) by Chiel van Heerwaarden

AR by Philipp S. Sommer on behalf of the Authors (14 Sep 2017) Author's response Manuscript

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.