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NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1 MONTHLY Intrinsic PressureLevel phi: Geopotential height data

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

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
Time
grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1949) to (Jan 2012) by 1. N= 757 pts :grid
Longitude
grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0.0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
Latitude
grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid

Other Info

calendar
standard
center
US Weather Service - National Met. Center
datatype
realarraytype
filepattern
/Data/data6/ncep-ncar/reanI/prs/prs.grib.mean.%6d
grib_name
HGT
GRIBgridcode
2
gribleveltype
100
gribNumBits
12
gribparam
7
PDS_TimeRange
113
process
62 wave triangular, 28 layer Spectral model from "Medium Range Forecast" run
PTVersion
2
scale_max
32321.5
scale_min
-334.29999
subcenter
NCEP Ensemble Products
units
gpm
standard units*
meter

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

Last updated: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:34:41 GMT