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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 Longitude/Latitude)

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.

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 ds102.0."

VOLUME:

4.39 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

DSS SLP Grid

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 Bob Dattore (303-497-1825) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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