Independent Variables (Grids)

L (forecast_period)

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

S (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (months since 01-Jan) periodic (0000 1 Jan) to (0000 1 Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 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

center

US Weather Service - National Met. Center

datatype

doublearraytype

grib_name

PRATE

gribcenter

7

gribfield

1

GRIBgridcode

3

gribleveltype

1

gribNumBits

13

gribparam

59

PDS_TimeRange

3

pointwidth

0

process

Spectral Statistical Interpolation (SSI) analysis from "Final" run.

PTVersion

2

standard_name

precipitation_rate

units

mm /day

standard units*

1.15740740740741×10^-08 meter second^-1

history

[(Averaged over M[0.5, 24.5]) (Averaged over S2[16 Dec 1981 - 15 Dec 1982, 16 Dec 2009 - 15 Dec 2010])]

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: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:54:13 GMT