Data Available

Below are some data that is currently available through this page. There are more data available by contacting Tinghai Ou (List of available variables). 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

Hourly WaterEvaporationFlux has been updated (2023-12-07), in which hourly Water Evaporation Flux is given. The previous version is the accumulated value for Water Evaporation Flux.

Third Pole Region

South and southeast Asia

Daily means

Third Pole Region

South and southeast Asia

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))