README.GLDAS-MOLTS.e691.n1.txt

File format: ASCII

Filename convention: var_site_eopx.M.dat
 where var is variable name and site is CEOP reference site name listed below, 
 EOPx ranges from 1 to 4, and M is first letter of LSM. 

Contents:  
 Model Output Location Time Series (MOLTS) from Global Land Data Assimilation 
 System (GLDAS) 1 degree simulation using Noah 2.7.1 land surface model,
 experiment 691.  
 
 This simulation was forced by a combination of NOAA/GDAS atmospheric analysis
 fields, spatially and temporally disaggregated NOAA Climate Prediction Center 
 Merged Analysis of Precipitation (CMAP), and observation based downward
 shortwaveand longwave radiation fields derived using the method of the 
 Air Force Weather Agency's AGRicultural METeorological modeling system.

EOP1 period: starting at 00Z 1 July 2001 and ending at 21Z 30 September 2001.
EOP2 period: starting at 00Z 1 October 2001 and ending at 21Z 30 September 2002.
EOP3 period: starting at 00Z 1 October 2002 and ending at 21Z 30 September 2003.
EOP4 period: starting at 00Z 1 October 2003 and ending at 21Z 31 December 2004.

Files are organized into directories by field, and within each 
directory there is one data file for each EOP period per reference site.  
The files are ascii format, and each record is a single 3-hourly output 
value (real). 
Therefore there are 92 days x 8 recs/day = 736 records in each EOP1 file,
365 days x 8 recs/day = 2920 records in each EOP2 file, 
365 days x 8 recs/day = 2920 records in each EOP3 file, and 
458 days x 8 recs/day = 3664 records in each EOP4 file. 

Field definitions:
avsurft         Average Surface Temperature [K]
qle             *Latent heat flux [W/m^2]
qh              *Sensible heat flux [W/m^2]
qg              *Ground heat flux [W/m^2]
lwnet           *Net long wave (surface) [W/m^2]
swnet           *Net short wave (surface) [W/m^2]
soilmoist4dlr1  0-10cm Soil moisture content [kg/m^2]
soilmoist4dlr2  10-40cm Soil moisture content [kg/m^2]
soilmoist4dlr3  40-100cm Soil moisture content [kg/m^2]
soilmoist4dlr4  100-200cm Soil moisture content [kg/m^2]
swe             Accumulated snow water equivalent [kg/m^2]
lwdown          Downward long wave flux [W/m^2]
swdown          Downward short wave flux [W/m^2]
qair            Near Surface Specific humidity [kg/kg]
tair            Near Surface Air Temp. [K]
totppt          **Total liquid and frozen precipitation [kg/m^2]
totrun          **Total storm surface and subsurface runoff [kg/m^2]

 Note: Variables marked by * are 3-hour average, while others are
       instantaneous at model output time.  Variables marked by ** are 
       3-hour accumulation.

X, Y coordinates of GLDAS MOLTS points as of January 2006:
listed at http://www.joss.ucar.edu/ghp/ceopdm/model/molts_world_list.html

 Some coastal and island reference site points did not align with GLDAS 
 model points.  In these cases the nearest point was used, if one was
 available (**), however, for three island locations there was no model 
 point in the vicinity (>>>).

 1) 195 113 Lindenberg (lon= 14.12,lat= 52.17)
 2) 185 112 Cabauw (lon= 4.93,lat= 51.97)
 3) 207 128 Sodankyla (lon= 26.65,lat= 67.37)
 4) 198 121 Norunda (lon= 17.48,lat= 60.08)
 5) 183 70 Oueme (lon= 2.0,lat= 9.5)
 6) 183 74 Niamey (lon= 2.5,lat= 13.5)
 7) 83 97 ARM Southern Great Plains (lon= -97.49,lat= 36.61)
 8) 92 101 Bondville (lon= -88.29,lat= 40.01)
 9) 75 109 Fort Peck (lon= -105.1,lat= 48.31)
 10) 96 96 Oak Ridge (lon= -84.29,lat= 35.96)
 11) 70 93 Mt. Bigelow (lon= -110.73,lat= 32.42)
 12) 75 114 BERMS (lon= -105.12,lat= 53.99)
 13) 309 132 Eastern Siberian Tundra (lon= 128.75,lat= 71.62)
 14) 310 123 Eastern Siberian Tiaga (lon= 129.62,lat= 62.25)
 15) 287 106 Mongolia (lon= 106.26,lat= 45.74)
 16) 272 92 Tibet (lon= 91.90,lat= 31.37)
 17) 265 93 Tibet-Gaize (lon= 84.08,lat= 32.50)
 18) 297 93 Yangtze River (lon= 116.000,lat= 32.00)
 19) 303 105 Inner Mongolia (lon= 122.12,lat= 44.46)
 20) 302 85 Northern South China Sea-S. Japan (lon= 121.18,lat= 24.97)
 21) 267 88 Himalayas (lon= 86.81,lat= 27.96)
 22) 308 96 ** Korean Haenam (lon= 126.57,lat= 34.55)
 23) 308 98 Korean Peninsula (lon= 127.90,lat= 37.44)
 24) 280 78 Chao-Phraya River (lon= 99.87,lat= 17.16)
 25) 281 77 Chao-Phraya River-Phitsanulok (lon= 100.48,lat= 16.85)
 26) 280 79 Chao-Phraya River-Lampang (lon= 99.47,lat= 18.40)
 27) 279 79 Chao-Phraya River-Kog-ma (lon= 98.90,lat= 18.81)
 28) 283 75 North-East Thailand (lon= 102.38,lat= 14.47)
 29) 315 68 >>> NO data for Western Pacific Ocean <<< (lon= 134.27,lat= 7.04)
 30) 315 69 >>> NO data for Western Pacific Ocean-Aimeliik <<< (lon= 134.48,lat= 8.46)
 31) 281 60 Equatorial Island (lon= 100.32,lat= -0.2)
 32) 119 50 Rondonia (lon= -61.93,lat= -10.08)
 33) 120 58 Manaus (lon= -60.21,lat= -2.61)
 34) 126 57 Santarem (lon= -54.97,lat= -3.02)
 35) 129 59 Caxiuana (lon= -51.51,lat= -1.71)
 36) 123 41 Pantanal (lon= -57.01,lat= -19.56)
 37) 133 45 Brasilia (lon= -47.92,lat= -15.93)
 38) 329 25 Tumbarumba (lon= 148.15,lat= -35.66)
 39) 24 131 ** ARM North Slope of Alaska (Barrow) (lon= -156.62,lat= 71.32)
 40) 328 58 >>> NO ARM Tropical W. Pacific (Manus) <<< (lon= 147.43,lat= -2.06)
 41) 311 47 ** ARM Tropical W. Pacific (Darwin) (lon= 130.89,lat= -12.43)

Questions/Comments: hkato@hsb.gsfc.nasa.gov, Matthew.Rodell@nasa.gov

Reference:
Rodell, M., P. R. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, K. Mitchell, C.-J.
 Meng, K. Arsenault, B. Cosgrove, J. Radakovich, M. Bosilovich, J. K.
 Entin, J. P. Walker, D. Lohmann, and D. Toll, The Global Land Data
 Assimilation System, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85 (3), 381-394, 2004.