d013·dataset
Daily weather across North America
Daymet Daily Surface Weather 1km North America
ORNL DAAC Daymet_V4 cloud-native 1 km daily NetCDFGeoTIFF hydrologyagricultureclimate
Daily gridded weather (Tmax, Tmin, precipitation, day-length, SWE, shortwave radiation) for North America at 1 km. Drives ecological and hydrological model forcing.
Daymet Daily Surface Weather 1km North America
Daily gridded weather (Tmax, Tmin, precipitation, day-length, SWE, shortwave radiation) for North America at 1 km. Drives ecological and hydrological model forcing.
Access
- Python (earthaccess):
short_name='Daymet_Daily_V4R1' - Portal: https://daac.ornl.gov/DAYMET/
- THREDDS: https://thredds.daac.ornl.gov/thredds/catalogs/ornldaac/Regional_and_Global_Data/DAYMET_COLLECTIONS/DAYMET_COLLECTIONS.html
Gotchas
- North America only — not global
- Interpolated from ground stations; less reliable in sparse-station regions (Arctic, Mexico)
- Annual + monthly aggregates are derived products with their own short names
Related
- Other datasets: d016
Sources
The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.
Quick access (cloud-direct)
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")
results = earthaccess.search_data(
short_name="Daymet_Daily_V4R1",
bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results) # stream from ORNL DAAC Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package. 📚 Problem Finder KB
Not yet tracked in the KB.