What are the GLDAS products?
The Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) data products consist of time series of land surface state (e.g., soil moisture and surface temperature) and flux (e.g., evaporation and sensible heat flux) parameters simulated by four land surface models (CLM, Mosaic, Noah and VIC). The 1.0 degree resolution data range from 1979 to present for the four models. The 0.25 degree data cover 2000 to present for the NOAH model. For more information about GLDAS, see http://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/.