Evaluation of NASA POWER Reanalysis Products to Estimate Daily Weather Variables in a Hot Summer Mediterranean Climate

• Published in: Agronomy (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 6; p. 1207
• Main Authors: Rodrigues, Gonçalo C., Braga, Ricardo P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2021
• Subjects: Accuracy; agronomy; Bias; bias correction; Climate; data collection; Datasets; Goodness of fit; Ground stations; hot summer Mediterranean climate; Humidity; Mean square errors; Mediterranean climate; Meteorological data; NASA POWER; Performance evaluation; Portugal; Quality control; Radiation; Rain; reanalysis dataset; Relative humidity; Solar radiation; Summer; Temperature; Time series; Variables; Weather; Weather stations; weather variables; Wind speed; Portugal

This study aims to evaluate NASA POWER reanalysis products for daily surface maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tmin) temperatures, solar radiation (Rs), relative humidity (RH) and wind speed (Ws) when compared with observed data from 14 distributed weather stations across Alentejo Region, Southern Portuga...