Global Weather Data
Please use the button below for current global weather data. Please contact pdaggupa@uoguelph.ca for further queries and information. If you reached this page after looking for the old website, globalweather.tamu.edu, please know this data is no longer available except in the zipped format at the bottom of this page. We cannot assist in providing this older data in any other way. We recommend you use the new website linked below.
Archive: Zipped Data by Continent
Each zip file contains daily precipitation, wind, relative humidity, and solar data in SWAT file format and CSV for 1979-2014. This data is available as is and there are no plans to update it in the future.
**More recent global weather data for SWAT is available at the W3S-Water website (please contact pdaggupa@uoguelph.ca for help with the W3S-Water website).**
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was completed over the 36-year period of 1979 through 2014. The CFSR was designed and executed as a global, high resolution, coupled atmosphere-ocean-land surface-sea ice system to provide the best estimate of the state of these coupled domains over this period. You may download daily CFSR data (precipitation, wind, relative humidity, and solar) in SWAT file format and CSV for the entire period in a zip file by continent.
- Africa (1.5GB)
- Asia (5.1GB) - please note there are many stations listed in Asia with no data; there is nothing we can do about this. If your study area is all empty data, please try the updated weather data site linked above.
- Europe (1GB)
- North America (3.4GB)
- Oceania (660MB)
- South America (1GB)
Publications
Dile, Y. T., R. Srinivasan, 2014. Evaluation of CFSR climate data for hydrologic prediction in data-scarce watersheds: an application in the Blue Nile River Basin. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 1-16. DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12182
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Fuka, D.R., C.A. MacAllister, A.T. Degaetano, and Z.M. Easton. 2013. Using the Climate Forecast System Reanalysis dataset to improve weather input data for watershed models. Hydrol. Proc. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10073.
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