Forecast asst monthly Forecast Time from IRI FD GCM NCEP: NCEP MRF9 ensemble forecasts and simulations of precipitation rate, 2m temperature, and 500mb heights.
Independent Variables (Grids)
- L (forecast_period)
- grid: /L (months) ordered (0.5 months) to (6.5 months) by 1.0 N= 7 pts :grid
- Forecast Started (forecast_reference_time)
- grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Jul 1998) to (0000 1 May 2004) by 1.0 N= 71 pts :grid
Other Info
- calendar
- 360
- CE
- null
- CS
- null
- datatype
- realarraytype
- gridid
- 171088976
- pointwidth
- 1
- scale_max
- null
- scale_min
- null
- standard_name
- time
- units
- months since 1960-01-01
- standard units*
- 0.0833333333333333 ( years since 1960-01-01 00:00.000000000 )
References
Kumar, A., M. P. Hoerling, M. Ji, A. Leetmaa, and P. Sardeshmukh, 1996: Assessing a GCM’s suitability for making seasonal predictions. J. Climate, 9, 115– 129.
Livezey, R. E., M. Masutani, and M. Ji, 1996: SST-forced seasonal simulation and prediction skill for versions of the NCEP/MRF model. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 507–517.
Saha, S., S. Nadiga, C. Thiaw, J. Wang, W. Wang, Q. Zhang, H.M. Van Den Dool, H.-L. Pan, S. Moorthi, D. Behringer, D. Stokes, M. Pena, S. Lord, G. White,W. Ebisuzaki, P. Peng, and P. Xie, 2006:The NCEP Climate Forecast System. J. Climate 19 (15): 3483-3517.
Last updated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT