GLDAS VIC10_M_EP: Global Land Surface Variables, Monthly 1.0 Degree, 2000-Present

Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS-2.1) monthly data product containing 34 land surface fields from January 2000 to the present. The dataset was generated by NASA using the VIC Land Surface Model 4.1.2, forced with a combination of NOAA/GDAS, GPCP, and AGRMET data. It is an Early Product stream with approximately 1.5-month latency, archived in NetCDF format.

Use Cases

• Modeling global soil moisture and temperature trends based on the 34 land surface fields.
• Analyzing long-term precipitation and radiation patterns based on the combined meteorological forcing data.
• Studying snow and ice dynamics in the terrestrial hydrosphere based on the described surface water and snow/ice fields.
• Assimilating land surface states into weather and climate forecasts based on the open-loop model outputs.

Strengths

• Contains 34 distinct land surface fields, providing multiple hydrological and energy variables.
• Provides a consistent temporal series from January 2000 to the present.
• Generated by NASA using the VIC Land Surface Model within the Land Information System (LIS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is an Early Product with a 1.5-month latency and is superseded by the main production stream once GPCP data is available.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Generated through temporal averaging of GLDAS-2.1 VIC 3-hourly data simulated with the VIC Land Surface Model 4.1.2 in Land Information System (LIS) Version 7.

Time Range

January 2000 to present

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 02:28:35.340170; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global