Background information about the characteristics of this data may be
found in An Introduction to Atmospheric and Oceanographic Datasets.
There is general basic information in its Introduction .
More specific information may be found in these chapter(s) or section(s):
Analyzed and Model Data .
See this and
this
for information about the objective analysis.
Also see these references, this
Monthly Weather Review article, and
this BAMS article.
VARIABLES:
Charlie Zender of NCAR/CGD reported that the ozone
units are not kg/m2, but Dobson units = gas column height at STP in 10-5 meters.
VARIABLE / LEVEL TABLES:
(in 1995: 17 grids max per hemisphere per analysis time)
column tot ozone
0.4 z t
1 z t
2 z t
5 z t
10 z t
30 z t
50 z t
70 z t
FORMAT AND USAGE:
General
To see NMC's ON84 Documentation click here.
To see FAQs about FNL and ADP data click here.
Tools to manipulate GRIB data
For support using NCAR/CISL's NCL click here.
For support using COLA's GrADS click here.
Models
For support using NCAR/MMM's WRF click here.
For support using ATMET's RAMS click here.
