Independent Variables (Grids)

Lead (forecast_period)

grid: /L (months) ordered (0.5 months) to (9.5 months) by 1.0 N= 10 pts :grid

Ensemble Member (realization)

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (28.0) by 1.0 N= 28 pts :grid

Pressure Level (air_pressure)

grid: /P (hPa) ordered [ (200)] :grid

Start Time (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Jan 1982) to (0000 1 Jul 2012) by 1.0 N= 367 pts :grid

Longitude (longitude)

grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (1W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid

Latitude (latitude)

grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90S) to (90N) by 1.0 N= 181 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize

4

center

US National Weather Service, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)

datatype

realarraytype

grib_name

HGT

gribcenter

7

gribfield

1

GRIBgridcode

3

gribleveltype

100

gribparam

7

missing_value

9.99900026E20

PDS_TimeRange

3

pointwidth

0

process

98

standard_name

geopotential_height

units

m

standard units*

meter

References

Kirtman, Ben P., and Coauthors, 2014: The North American Multimodel Ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; Phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 585–601. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00050.1

Last updated: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:18:23 GMT