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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 .

You may wish to refer to Other Sources of Data .


TYPES:

Operational
Gridded analyses
Synoptic
Surface analyses
Upper air analyses


COVERAGE:

Global coverage
Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere are in separate grids. Information about the grid orientation is here.
Grids could be converted from NMC wave number format to NCAR cartesian grid format, but at substantial cost (back in 1976 anyway), and the code is not portable.


UPDATES:

None
See DS080.0 for earlier analyses.
See DS082.0 for later analyses.


TIMES:

daily 12-hrly
at 00Z and 12Z


VOLUME:

79MB estimated total


COST:

These data are subject to limited distribution.

To send a data request to a staff member, please use this form.
Updated 22 July 2005 

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