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NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from July 1999

These NCEP FNL (Final) Operational Global Analysis data are on 1.0x1.0 degree grids continuously at every six hours. This product is from the Global Forecast System (GFS) that is operationally run four times a day in near-real time at NCEP.

The analyses are available on the surface, at 26 mandatory (and other pressure) levels from 1000mb to 10mb, in the surface boundary layer and at some sigma layers, the tropopause and a few others. Parameters include surface pressure, sea level pressure, geopotential height, temperature, sea surface temperature, soil values, ice cover, relative humidity, u- and v- winds, vertical motion, vorticity and ozone.

The archive time series is continuously extended to a near-current date. It is not maintained in real-time.

More information is available.


PERIODS: 1999-07-30 18:00 +0000 to 2009-11-21 06:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)
Period details by subset
UPDATES: Daily (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureCloud Amount/FrequencyCloud Liquid Water/IceConvection
Geopotential HeightHumidityHydrostatic PressureIce Extent
Land CoverMaximum/Minimum TemperaturePlanetary Boundary Layer HeightPotential Temperature
Precipitable WaterSea Surface TemperatureSkin TemperatureSnow Water Equivalent
Soil Moisture/Water ContentSurface Air TemperatureSurface PressureSurface Winds
Tropospheric OzoneUpper Level WindsVertical Wind MotionVorticity
Wind Shear   

GRIB parameter table
LEVELS: See the detailed metadata for level information
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
RELATED SITES: NMC EMC Model Documentation
MRF/AVN/GDAS CHANGES SINCE 1991
NCEP Global Parallel System Documentation
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GATEWAY ... HISTORY ...
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 ds083.2."
VOLUME: 1075.04 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset
DATA FORMATS: WMO GRIB1, WMO GRIB2
RELATED DATASETS: ds082.0 - NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, July 1976 to April 1997
ds083.0 - NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, April 1997 to June 2007
ds335.0 - Historical Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) Gridded Model Data, December 2002 - current

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