Independent Variables (Grids)

Lead (forecast_period)

grid: /L (months) ordered (0.5 months) to (11.5 months) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid

Ensemble Member (realization)

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (10.0) by 1.0 N= 10 pts :grid

Forecast Start Time (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Jan 1981) to (0000 1 Dec 2010) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid

Longitude (longitude)

grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (1W) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid

Latitude (latitude)

grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90S) to (90N) by 1.0 N= 181 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize

4

center

Montreal (RSMC)

datatype

realarraytype

grib_name

TMP

gribcenter

54

gribfield

1

gribleveltype

100

gribNumBits

16

gribparam

11

gribvariable

11

missing_value

9.99900026E20

PDS_TimeRange

10

pointwidth

0

standard_name

air_temperature

units

Kelvin_scale

standard units*

degree_Kelvin above 0

References

Kirtman, Ben P., and Coauthors, 2014: The North American Multimodel Ensemble: Phase-1 seasonal-to-interannual prediction; Phase-2 toward developing intraseasonal prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 95, 585–601. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00050.1

Last updated: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 21:33:23 GMT