Independent Variables (Grids)

L

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

M

grid: /M (unitless) ordered (1.0) to (28.0) by 1.0 N= 28 pts :grid

S (forecast_reference_time)

grid: /S (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (0000 1 Apr 2011) to (0000 1 May 2025) by 1.0 N= 170 pts :grid

Longitude (longitude)

grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (0.9375W) by 0.9375 N= 384 pts :grid

Latitude

grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered [ (89.27665N) (88.33975N) (87.39729N) ... (89.27665S)] N= 190 pts :grid

Other Info

bufferwordsize

4

CE

null

cNZ

0

CS

null

datatype

realarraytype

gribfield

1

missing_value

9.99900026E20

pointwidth

0

units

kg m^-2

standard units*

kilogram meter^-2

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.

Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, Jiande Wang, Sudhir Nadiga, Patrick Tripp, Hua-Lu Pan, David Behringer, Yu-Tai Hou, Hui-ya Chuang, Mark Iredell, Michael Ek, Jesse Meng, Rongqian Yang, 2011 : The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2. To be submitted to the Journal of Climate.

Last updated: Sun, 04 May 2025 07:30:37 GMT