Fields from MRF analyses, four times per day, plus 12-, 24- and 36-hour forecasts.
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PERIODS:
1990-03 to 1999-02
UPDATES:
VARIABLES:
Air Temperature
Albedo
Cloud Amount/Frequency
Evaporation
Gravity Wave
Heat Flux
Humidity
Hydrostatic Pressure
Ice Extent
Longwave Radiation
Maximum/Minimum Temperature
Planetary Boundary Layer Height
Precipitable Water
Precipitation Rate
Runoff
Shortwave Radiation
Skin Temperature
Snow Water Equivalent
Soil Moisture/Water Content
Soil Temperature
Surface Air Temperature
Surface Pressure
Surface Winds
TIMES:
Every 6 hours
TYPES:
Grid
COVERAGE:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.277S Northernmost=89.277N
Detailed coverage informationDetailed coverage information:
0.9375° x ~0.945° from 0.0E to 0.9375W and 89.277N to 89.277S (384 x 190 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
1.4815° x ~1.469° from 0.74075E to 00.74075W and 88.875N to 88.875S (243 x 122 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 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 ds084.5."