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NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic

MONTHLY Intrinsic from NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1: Climate Data Assimilation System I; NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis Project.

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Datasets and variables

Mean Sea Level NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL[pressure ]
PressureLevel NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic PressureLevel[relv reld CBTMW u CBUQ vtemp CBMZW CBUW temp psi CBVQ qa CBTW CBVW vvel rhum vpot v phi CBTZW CBQW ]
surface NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic surface[pressure ]
total_air_column NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic total_air_column[PWAT ]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Pressure grid: /P (mb) ordered [ (1000) (925) (850) (700) (600) (500) (400) (300) (250) (200) (150) (100) (70) (50) (30) (20) (10)] :grid
Pressure grid: /P (mb) ordered [ (1000) (925) (850) (700) (600) (500) (400) (300)] :grid
Pressure grid: /P (mb) ordered [ (1000) (925) (850) (700) (600) (500) (400) (300) (250) (200) (150) (100)] :grid
Time grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1949) to (Apr 2012) by 1.0 N= 760 pts :grid
Longitude grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
XY grid: /XY (unitless) ordered (1.) to (3.) by 1.0 N= 3 pts :grid
Latitude grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid

Other Info

filepattern
/Data/data6/ncep-ncar/reanI/flux/flx.lola.grib.mean.%6d
year0
[ 194901 194902 194903 194904 194905 194906 194907 194908 194909 194910 194911 194912 195001 195002 195003 195004 195005 195006 195007 195008 195009 195010 195011 195012 195101 195102 195103 195104 195105 195106 195107 195108 195109 195110 195111 195112 195201 195202 195203 195204 195205 195206 195207 195208 195209 195210 195211 195212 195301 195302 195303 195304 195305 195306 195307 195308 195309 195310 195311 195312 195401 195402 195403 195404 195405 195406 195407 195408 195409 195410 195411 195412 195501 195502 195503 195504 195505 195506 195507 195508 195509 195510 195511 195512 195601 195602 195603 195604 195605 195606 195607 195608 195609 195610 195611 195612 195701 195702 195703 ... 201204 ]

References

Kalnay, E., M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, A. Leetmaa, B. Reynolds, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March, 1996

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