Independent Variables (Grids)

L (forecast_period)

grid: /L (months) ordered (0.5 months) to (9.5 months) by 1.0 N= 10 pts :grid

Member

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (4.0) by 1.0 N= 4 pts :grid

Pressure level

grid: /P (mb) ordered [ (1000) (925) (850) (700) (600) (500) (400) (300) (250) (200) (150) (100) (70) (50) (30) (20) (10)] :grid

S (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (days since 2009-01-01) ordered (0000 15 May 2009) to (0000 24 Sep 2012) by 1.0 N= 1229 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

cNZ

17

datatype

realarraytype

gribfield

1

gribNumBits

14

gribparam

84

missing_value

9.99900026E20

pointwidth

0

units

m s^-1

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: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 18:39:07 GMT