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Data offered docs-verified: MERRA-2 surface and pressure-level variables (160 variables used in training) · Pressure-level wind components (U, V), vertical wind, air temperature, specific humidity, geopotential height, cloud fraction, cloud ice and liquid mass fraction · Single-level near-surface wind, 2 m temperature, skin temperature, surface pressure, sea level pressure, column-total ice/liquid/vapour, surface and top-of-atmosphere radiation · Static fields: surface geopotential height, land/ocean/ice fractions · Time-averaged diagnostics: root zone soil wetness, leaf area index, surface fluxes · Hurricane Ida (2021) 72-hour forecast initial conditions (2021-08-27 00:00 UTC)
Coverage docs-verified: Atlantic Ocean (hurricane initial conditions) · 2017-2023 (hurricane initial conditions)
Resolution docs-verified: Temporal: 3-hourly for pressure-level variables, 1-hourly for single-level variables; spatial resolution not stated
Formats docs-verified: imagefolder (Hugging Face) · Parquet (auto-converted by HF viewer)
Access docs-verified: Free and open download from Hugging Face; no auth listed; licence MIT

Use cases llm-inferred: Benchmarking an AI weather model's track and intensity skill on an Atlantic hurricane case (Ida 2021) as a methods reference for storm-wind context · Sourcing MERRA-2 surface and pressure-level wind, pressure and humidity fields to prototype wind-loading or storm-event context analyses · Demo or teaching dataset for ML-based weather-forecast workflows before applying them to UK catchment or drainage work
Audience llm-inferred: meteorological and climate modellers · data scientists working on weather ML · GIS analysts · environmental researchers

Constraints llm-inferred: Atlantic hurricanes only, 2017-2023 initial conditions; not UK-specific · Small evaluation set (2 rows in the viewer, 1.52 GB total) · Full evaluation needs MERRA-2 surface and pressure data for the 160 training variables · Time-averaged diagnostics are derived from hourly values, and NaNs in GWETROOT and LAI are filled with 1 and 0 over ocean · Not a real-time or operational feed; no update frequency stated · Research-oriented dataset from IBM and NASA; not an operational data product for consultancy use

Verified 2026-10-15 via HF API: exists; 390 downloads/30d, 2 likes.

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: manual-2026-10-15 (Hugging Face datasets)