Climatic daily data of heat and water balance in Monsoon Asian Region. The data was calculated from surface meteorological point daily data during 1971-2000. With the cooperation between Asian Monsoon Subject and Agriculture Subject under DIAS, we have finished the climatic daily solar radiation flux data, which is one part of heat and water balance data set. The data set was based on the daily observation data at weather station in Monsoon Asian Region.		The solar radiation flux of July
Daily, seasonal change, annual variation of the heat and water balances can be obtained from this data set. The data set will be compared with the calculated results from GCMs and regional climatic models. The compared results will be feedback for improving the GCMs and regional climatic models. For the Agriculture field, field water temperature, soil temperature and soil water content can be estimated by employing the heat and water balance model with the data set as input. The models with photosynthetic process of vegetation can be improved due to the using of the solar radiation flux data. The estimation method was according to Xu et al. 2003, Kondo 1994, and Kondo et al. 1996. Some impacts that may influence the sunshine ratio, such as topography, atmospheric turbidity, buildings around the weather stations, were taken into the consideration. This datasets have been created by the following institutions. Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences.

Monsoon Asian heat and water balance dataset:

Name of data set:	Monsoon Asian heat and water balance dataset
Data format:	ASCII
Organization of data:	Monthly mean and annual mean
Parameter:	Solar radiation flux, long-wave radiation flux, potential evaporation and wetness index
Spatial extent:	75-152 degrees East,19-52 degrees North
Number of data point:	194
Time period:	1971 to 2000
Size of data:	Approximately 520 KB

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Reference

• Xu, Jianqing, Kooiti MASUDA, Yasushi ISHIGOOKA, Tsuneo KUWAGATA, Shigenori HAGINOYA, Tadahiro HAYASAKA, and Tetsuzo YASUNARI, 2011: "Estimation and verification of daily surface shortwave flux over China", J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, Vol. 89, No.1A, pp. 351-364.

Monthly Surface Meteorological Data of China, National Meteorological Center.

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