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The answer was provided by a GLDAS/NLDAS Subject Matter Expert: "The Catchment land surface model (CLSM) anchoring GLDAS2.2 does not simulate surface water. dCanopy interception represents rainfall intercepted by the canopy of trees and plants while the part of rainfall not intercepted becomes ...

The following questions were received from a user by the GES DISC Help Desk, and are posted here for community information.

"Does GLDAS TWS considers surface water?
What is Canopy Interception?

Is the groundwater storage representative of shallow or deep ground water?"

Hello. Our team has requested the name of the variable and data collection, and also a time period of interest and area that can be used to examine the data. If you have any plots you have made of the data, they would be useful as well (you can post them here).

Hello, we will forward your question to the MERRA-2 data specialists and may contact the MERRA-2 team as well.

Here is the reply from our GES DISC staff: ---- Yes, it is correct to assume PM 10 will ALWAYS be greater than PM 2.5. Inhalable coarse particles PM10 have a diameter of 10 micrometers (μm) or less. Finer particles, designated PM2.5, have a diameter of 2.5 μm or less. In the MERRA-2 FAQ page https:/...

The NASA Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) are in the process of migrating data and data tools to the cloud computing environment. To assist users with the many different aspects of this transition, the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) has created a pag...

We have received your question and are providing it to our MERRA-2 and aerosol experts for response.

We are glad to hear that the data in netCDF format will be useful to you.

One followup question: if you downloaded a subsetted file in netCDF format, do you have a way to convert that to GeoTIFF? If so, we can examine the error closely and attempt to determine why the spatial subsetting did not work. If you do not have a way to convert netCDF files to GeoTIFF, then findin...

Daniel, Hello. We have examined our servers and have determined that the only way you can get GeoTIFF subset files for the data you are seeking is to use Giovanni. The data products and values will be the same; however, our OPeNDAP server is not set up to provide spatial subsetted data as GeoTIFF. W...