Independent Variables (Grids)

L

grid: /L (months) ordered (0.0 months) to (119.0 months) by 1.0 N= 120 pts :grid

lat (latitude)

grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (90S) to (90N) by 0.9424084 N= 192 pts :grid

lon (longitude)

grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0) to (1.25W) by 1.25 N= 288 pts :grid

Member

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (10.0) by 1.0 N= 10 pts :grid

S (forecast reference time)

grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Jan 1961) to (0000 1 Jan 2006) by 60.0 N= 10 pts :grid

Other Info

cell_methods

time: mean

datatype

realarraytype

Fill_value

1.00000002E20

missing_value

1.00000002E20

units

Kelvin_scale

standard units*

degree_Kelvin above 0

history

Bias correction has been done following International CLIVAR Project Office (2011).The observataion data is NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis from http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/

References

Peter R. Gent, Gokhan Danabasoglu, Leo J. Donner, Marika M. Holland, Elizabeth C. Hunke, Steve R. Jayne, David M. Lawrence, Richard B. Neale, Philip J. Rasch, Mariana Vertenstein, Patrick H. Worley, Zong-Liang Yang, Minghua Zhang, 2011,the Community Climate System Model Version 4, Journal of Climate,doi: 10.1175/2011JCLI4083.1

W. G. Large and S. G. Yeager, 2009, The global climatology of an interannually varying air–sea flux data set, Climate Dynamics Volume 33, Numbers 2-3, 341-364, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-008-0441-3

Last updated: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:51:22 GMT