Independent Variables (Grids)

Integration Time

grid: /L0 (days) ordered (0.0 days) to (296.5 days) by 0.5 N= 594 pts :grid

Member

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (15.0) by 1.0 N= 15 pts :grid

P

grid: /P (mb) ordered (850 mb) to (200 mb) N= 2 pts :grid

Forecast Issue Time (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (days since 1981-01-01) ordered [ (0000 1 Jan 1981) (0000 1 Feb 1981) (0000 1 Mar 1981) ... (0000 1 Dec 2008)] N= 336 pts :grid

Longitude (longitude)

grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid

Latitude (latitude)

grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize

4

center

US Weather Service - National Met. Center

datatype

realarraytype

grib_name

UGRD

gribcenter

7

gribfield

1

GRIBgridcode

2

gribleveltype

100

gribNumBits

10

gribparam

33

PDS_TimeRange

10

pointwidth

650.0

process

98

PTVersion

2

scale_max

44.0

subcenter

Environmental Modeling Center

units

m /s

standard units*

meter second^-1

References

Saha, S., S. Nadiga, C. Thiaw, J. Wang, W. Wang, Q. Zhang, H.M. Van Den Dool, H.-L. Pan, S. Moorthi, D. Behringer, D. Stokes, M. Pena, S. Lord, G. White,W. Ebisuzaki, P. Peng, and P. Xie, 2006:The NCEP Climate Forecast System. J. Climate 19 (15): 3483-3517.

Last updated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:27:28 GMT