What is the definition of the average surface skin temperature in the NLDAS-2 Mosaic output?
A. NLDAS-2 Mosaic provides the hourly instantaneous surface skin temperature (aka, the temperature at exactly 00 minutes of every hour – not the average temperature over the entire hour). The “average” here refers to the average over the entire grid box for all vegetation, bare soil, and snow skin temperatures. For more on the definition of this “AvgSurfT” variable, check the ALMA standard pages.
