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NASA ISLSCP GDSLAM Near-Surface-ECMWF Daily_6-Hourly precipitation

Daily_6-Hourly precipitation from NASA ISLSCP GDSLAM Near-Surface-ECMWF: Global data sets for land-atmosphere models, including near-surface meteorological analyses and hybrid products from the ECMWF.

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Datasets and variables

prc
cnvt
totl

Independent Variables (Grids)

Hour of Day (Z) grid: /C (unitless) ordered (0.0) to (18.0) by 6.0 N= 4 pts :grid
Time (time) grid: /T (julian_day) ordered (1 Jan 1987) to (31 Dec 1988) by 1.0 N= 731 pts :grid
Longitude (longitude) grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (179.5W) to (179.5E) by 1.0 N= 360 pts :grid
Latitude (latitude) grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89.5N) to (89.5S) by 1.0 N= 180 pts :grid

References

Brankovic, C., and J. Van Maanen, 1985. The ECMWF Climate system. ECMWF Rech. Memo. No 109 51 pp + figs.

Mitchell, K.E., and Y. Lin, 1994: Production of 6-hourly continental precipitation data sets for 1987 and 1988 for ISLSCP Initiative I, Development Division, National Meteorological Center, Washington, DC.

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