Independent Variables (Grids)

L (forecast_period)

grid: /L (months) ordered (0.5 months) to (8.5 months) by 1.0 N= 9 pts :grid

M (realization)

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (15.0) by 1.0 N= 15 pts :grid

S (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Jan 1981) to (0000 1 Dec 2009) by 1.0 N= 348 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 Weather Service - National Met. Center

datatype

realarraytype

grib_name

PRATE

gribcenter

7

gribfield

1

GRIBgridcode

3

gribleveltype

1

gribNumBits

12

gribparam

59

PDS_TimeRange

3

pointwidth

0

process

98

PTVersion

2

standard_name

precipitation_rate

subcenter

Environmental Modeling Center

units

mm /day

standard units*

1.15740740740741×10^-08 meter second^-1

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 19:18:19 GMT