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 |
| Africa water availability | LIS 7 Regional daily runs |
| Projection | Lat-Lon |
| Spatial Extent | West Africa (5.3500 N, 18.65 W; 17.650 N, 25.850 E) East Africa (11.750 S, 22.050E; 22.950 N, 51.350 E) Southern Africa (37.850 S, 6.050 E; 6.350 N, 54.550 E) |
| Spatial Resolution* | 0.25 and 0.1 degree (~25km, 10km) |
| Time Period | 1/1/1981 - present |
| Temporal Resolution** | 30 minute time steps (Noah), 1 hr (VIC), 3-hourly output fields; dekad (WRSI) |
| 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 | VIC: University of Maryland (AVHRR), 1 km NOAH: NCEP-modified IGBP(MODIS), 1 km |
| Soils Definition | Reynolds, Jackson, and Rawls [1999] |
| Land Surface Models | Noah3.3, VIC4.1.2, GeoWRSI |
| Soil layers |
Noah: 4 layers : 0-0.1 m, 0.1-0.4 m, 0.4-1.0m, 1.0-2.0 m, VIC: 3 layers: 0-0.1 m, 0.1-1.6 m, and 1.6-1.9 m |
| Output Format | NetCDF |
| Central Asia Snow Modeling | LIS 7 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