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NMC LFM North America Tropospheric Analyses, daily 1971Oct-1995Dec

This dataset contains the Limited Fine Mesh (LFM) model output from NCEP. The output contains initial time analyses and forecast fields from 6 hours out to 48 hours. These grids are no longer being produced by NCEP. The December, 1995 data is the last data we will archive from the LFM model.

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PERIODS:

1971-10 to 1995-12

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Dew Point Temperature	Geopotential Height	Humidity
Potential Temperature	Precipitable Water	Sea Level Pressure	Surface Air Temperature
Surface Pressure	Upper Level Winds

ON84 parameter table

LEVELS:

See the detailed metadata for level information

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=177.529E Easternmost=25.305W
Latitude Range: Southernmost=16.586N Northernmost=82.665N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
190.5km x 190.5km (at 60N) oriented 105W (41x38 North Polar Stereographic)
190.5km x 190.5km (at 60N) oriented 105W (31x24 North Polar Stereographic)

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/NWS/OST/MDL

Meteorological Development Laboratory, Office of Science and Technology, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce

PUBLICATIONS:

Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds069.0."

VOLUME:

15.62 GBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
Small Grids (Oct, 1971 - Aug, 1977): 978.09 MBytes
Large Grids (Sep, 1977 - Dec, 1995): 14.64 GBytes
Model Elevaton Grids: 0.01 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

NCEP ON84

RELATED DATASETS:

ds069.5 - NMC NGM North America Analyses, daily 1984Oct-1997Jan
ds609.2 - GCIP NCEP Eta model output

MORE DETAILS:

View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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