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NOTOS IGY Daily Southern Hemisphere Sea-Level Pressure and 500 mb Height Grids for 1957 June to 1958 December

The grids in this dataset contain Southern Hemisphere sea-level pressure and 500mb height data for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) period of June 1957 to December 1958. The data are on a 5-degree latitude/longitude grid covering the hemisphere from 15S to the South Pole.

The data originally came from South Africa where it was on a 10-degree by 5-degree diamond latitude/longitude grid. DSS interpolated data to the missing gridpoints to provide a resolution of five degrees in both directions.

PERIODS:

1957-06-01 12:00 +0000 to 1958-12-31 12:00 +0000

VARIABLES:

Geopotential Height

Sea Level Pressure

LEVELS:

See the detailed metadata for level information

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=15S

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
5° x 5°, 0E to 355E and 15S to 90S (72 x 16 Latitude/Longitude)

SOURCES:

UCAR/NCAR/CGD

Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

ZA/SAWB

South African Weather Bureau, South Africa

PUBLICATIONS:

South African Weather Bureau, 1960: Grid-Point and Monthly Mean Maps for the Southern Hemisphere for the Second Half of the International Geophysical Year (April to December 1958). Notos, 9(1/4), 3-287.

South African Weather Bureau, 1959: Grid-Point and Monthly Mean Maps for the Southern Hemisphere for the First Half of the International Geophysical Year (July 1957 to March 1958). Notos, 8(1/4), 3-304.

VOLUME:

4.39 MBytes

FORMATS:

DSS SLP Grid

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Will Spangler (303-497-1217) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

METADATA:

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