FLDAS currently can run with the following specifications and improvements such as additional datasets (forcing and near surface), new land surface models, and algorithms are ongoing in the project.
*The tables below scroll to the right
| Fewsnet Global | LIS 7.1 |
| Projection | Lat-Lon |
| Spatial Extent | Global (179.95W, 59.95S; 179.95E, 89.95N) |
| Spatial Resolution* | 0.1 degree (10km) |
| Time Period | 1/1/1981 - present |
| Temporal Resolution** | 15 minute time steps, daily output |
| Forcing | Datasets derived from satellite measurements and atmospheric analyses |
| Forcing Heights | 2 m for air temperature and specific humidity, 10 m for wind |
| Elevation Definition | SRTM |
| Vegetation Definition | NCEP-modified IGBP(MODIS), 1 km |
| Soils Definition | Reynolds, Jackson, and Rawls [1999] |
| Albedo | monthly climatology, NCEP_Native |
| Max Snow Albedo | Barlage_Native |
| Greenness | NCEP Greenness fraction |
| Soil Texture | STATSGOFAO |
| Landmask | MODIS |
| Land Surface Models | Noah 3.6.1 |
| Output Format | NetCDF |
| Soil layers: 4 | 0-0.1 m, 0.1-0.4 m, 0.4-1.0 m, 1.0-2.0 m |
| Central Asia Snow Modeling | LIS 7.3 daily runs |
| projection | Lat-Lon |
| Spatial extent | Central Asia Domain ( 30-100°E, 21-56°N) |
| Spatial Resolution* | 0.01x0.01 degree (1km x 1 km) |
| Time Period | 2001-01 to present |
| Temporal Resolution** | Noah3.6.1 30-min |
| Forcing | Datasets derived from satellite measurements and atmospheric analyses |
| Forcing Heights | 2 m for air temperature and specific humidity, 10 m for wind |
| Elevation Definition | SRTM |
| Vegetation Definition | IGBP-MODIS |
| Land mask Definition | MOD44w |
| Soils Definition | Reynolds, Jackson, and Rawls [1999] |
| Land Surface Models | Noah3.6.1 |
| Soil layers | 4 layers: 0-0.1 m, 0.1-0.4 m, 0.4-1.0 m, 1.0-2.0 m |
| Output format | NetCDF |
*coarser scale meterological forcings are spatialy disagregated in the LIS core software using bilinear interpolation.
** daily rainfall inputs are temporally disagregated with LDT software, matching the rainfall distrubution specified in the meterological forcing