Data Available

Below are simulations currently available through this page from January 1980 to December 2019 (the 9 km for east Asia with a focus on the Third Pole region has been extended to September 2020). The data sets are in NetCDF format, with one file per month per single variable for hourly intervals and one file per year per single variable for daily intervals.
For further information and questions about these products please contact Tinghai Ou The data sets are in NetCDF format, with one file per month per single variable for hourly intervals and one file per year per single variable for daily intervals.

Invariant variables

Hourly data

Third Pole Region

South and southeast Asia

Daily means

Third Pole Region

South and southeast Asia

Monthly means

Third Pole Region

How to read the data

Please find below information on how to read these NetCDF in MATLAB (Terrain Height and daily precipitation as examples).

Terrain Height:

% load data for the whole domain
Lon = ncread('DEM_TP9km.nc','XLONG'); %longitude
Lat = ncread('DEM_TP9km.nc','XLAT'); %Latitude
DEM = ncread('DEM_TP9km.nc','HGT'); %Terrain Height

% a quick view of the Terrain Height
contourf(Lon,Lat,DEM)


Daily precipitation of 1980:

% load data for the whole domain
Lon = ncread('WRFOut_TP9km_Daily_Total_P_1980.nc','lon'); %longitude
Lat = ncread('WRFOut_TP9km_Daily_Total_P_1980.nc','lat'); %Latitude
TotP = ncread('WRFOut_TP9km_Daily_Total_P_1980.nc','tp'); %daily total precipitation

% a quick view of the daily total precipitation on day 180
contourf(Lon,Lat,TotP(:,:,180))