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... Intrinsic^* Mean Sea Level Pressure yearly-anomalies Y (10N) (70N) RANGEEDGES T (Dec-Feb 1950-2004) VALUES X (5W) (80W) RANGEEDGES { Y cosd } [ X Y ] [ T ] svd

svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies }

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

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Datasets and variables

normalized eigenvalues	svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies } evaln[ ev \|]
structures	svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies } Ss[ X Y \| ev]
singular values	svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies } sv[ ev \|]
time series	svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies } Ts[ T \| ev]
total variance	146189. kilogram2 meter-2 second-4
weights	svd { NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic MSL pressure anomalies } W[ Y \|]

Independent Variables (Grids)

ev	grid: /ev (unitless) ordered (1.) to (162.) by 1. N= 162 pts :grid
Time	grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered [ (Dec 1950) (Jan 1951) (Feb 1951) ... (Feb 2004)] N= 162 pts :grid
Longitude	grid: /X (degree_east) ordered (5W) to (80W) by 2.5 N= 31 pts :grid
Latitude	grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (10N) to (70N) by 2.5 N= 25 pts :grid

history

Averaged over T2[1949, 2007]

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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