About this Service
This application, also called the World Weather for Water Data Service (W3S), is a Data as a Service (DaaS) platform that allows
application users to download climate (precipitation, maximum temperature & minimum temperature) data of a pre-specified region
within any watershed across the globe. The weather data can be downloaded in multiple hydrologic model
compatible formats like SWAT and generic CSV format for other hydrologic models.
W3S can thus be considered a global weather data playground designed to swiftly assist users with developing
both conceptual and data-driven rainfall-runoff and hydro-ecological models.
Data Sources
Historical Data:
Precipitation Data: Daily timestep; 1999 onwards. Original data source: IMERG: Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM,
(https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/imerg).
Final Run product, V06.
Temperature Data: Daily timestep: 1999 onwards. Original data source: Climate Prediction Center of Physical Sciences Laboratory,
(https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.cpc.globaltemp.html)
References
We request the users of this data platform to provide appropriate references of following articles pertaining to the data platform and original data sources
Ghimire, U., Akhtar, T., Shrestha, N.K. et al. A Long-term Global Comparison of IMERG and CFSR with Surface Precipitation Stations. Water Resour Manage 36, 5695–5709 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-022-03328-5
Huffman, G.J., Bolvin, D.T., Braithwaite, D., Hsu, K., Joyce, R., Xie, P. and Yoo, S.H., 2015. NASA global precipitation measurement (GPM) integrated multi-satellite retrievals for GPM (IMERG). Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) Version, 4(26).
https://gpm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/IMERG_ATBD_V06.3.pdf
CPC Global Unified Temperature data provided by the NOAA PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their website at
https://psl.noaa.gov
Code
This application is developed using R Shiny. The application code is available from Taimoor/Steven
Authors
Mr. Uttam Ghimire, Watershed Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, ON, Canada and Stockholm Environment Institute Asia Center,
Bangkok, Thailand
Dr Taimoor Akhtar, Watershed Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Dr Narayan K. Shrestha, Watershed Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Dr Prasad Daggupati, Watershed Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Mr. Steven Mugisha Mizero, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Dr Pranesh Kumar Paul, Watershed Research Group, School of Engineering, University of Guelph, ON, Canada
Contact
pdaggupa@uoguelph.ca