The Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-scale International Project (GCIP) Initial Data Set (GIDS-1) contains data from the west-central Mississippi River basin. GIDS-1 is a combination of operational and research data over a 3-month period.
Objectives:
The purpose of GIDS-1 was to create a prototype data set similar to future data sets collected during the GCIP Enhanced Observing Period (1995-2000). Data from the STORM-FEST Field Project was selected as a nucleus to build GIDS-1.
STORM-FEST provided a data set that:
An additional 6 weeks of operational data was added to the STORM-FEST data to: