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NOAA NCEP CPC GLOBAL daily

NOAA NCEP CPC GLOBAL daily: Data is interpolated in time and space from NOAA twice-daily OLR values and averaged to once daily.

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Datasets and variables

Missing NOAA NCEP CPC GLOBAL daily info[ nmiss | time]
Daily OLR NOAA NCEP CPC GLOBAL daily olr[ lon lat | time]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Latitude grid: /lat (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid
Longitude grid: /lon (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
nmiss grid: /nmiss (unitless) ordered (1.) to (7.) by 1. N= 7 pts :grid
time grid: /time (days since 1974-01-01) ordered (1 Jun 1974) to (31 Aug 2008) by 1. N= 12511 pts :grid

Other Info

Conventions
COARDS
documentation
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.interp_OLR.html
platform
Observation
reference
Liebmann and Smith (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 1996)
title
Daily Mean Interpolated OLR
history
Tue May 10 11:37:33 2005: ncatted -a missing_value,info,o,s,32766 /Datasets/interp_OLR/olr.day.mean.nc /home/hoop/crdc/oldCRDC2COARDSv3/oldCRDC2COARDS Sat Dec 9 01:36:34 1995 from olr.7494.nc created 08/24/94 by C. Smith (netCDF2.3)

References

Liebmann, B., and Smith, C.A., 1996: Description of a complete (interpolated) outgoing longwave radiation dataset. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77, 1275 –1277

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