South African Southern Hemisphere Tropospheric Analyses, daily 1977Aug-1981Mar
From the Republic of South Africa Weather Bureau, twice daily
Southern Hemisphere grids on a polar stereographic
projection.
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use one of our reanalysis datasets, such as ds090.0. That's because those are
based on a more complete collection of observations, improved analysis methods,
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PERIODS:
1972-05 to 1981-03
VARIABLES:
Air Temperature
Geopotential Height
Ice Extent
Sea Level Pressure
Sea Surface Temperature
Terrain Elevation
Upper Level Winds
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
1000 mbar
925 mbar
850 mbar
700 mbar
500 mbar
400 mbar
300 mbar
250 mbar
200 mbar
150 mbar
100 mbar
50 mbar
TIMES:
Every 12 hours
TYPES:
Grid
COVERAGE:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=19.116N
Detailed coverage informationDetailed coverage information:
381km x 381km (at 60S) oriented 170W (63x63 South Polar Stereographic)
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 ds107.0."
VOLUME:
1.15 GBytes
DATA FORMATS:
Binary (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT:
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Gregg Walters (303-497-1218)
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