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ECMWF TOGA Global Advanced Operational Surface Analysis, daily 1985-cont

This dataset contains the high resolution output from the ECMWF operational model. This set contains only surface data on a gaussian (n80) grid with a resolution of about 1.125 degrees.

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PERIODS:

1985-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2008-12-31 18:00 +0000

UPDATES:

Yearly (nominally)

ACCESS:

We are allowed to distribute this data to US scientists, scientists visiting US organizations, and Canadian scientists affiliated with UCAR member organizations only

USAGE:

This data must not be used for commercial purposes. ECMWF must be given credit in any publications in which this data is used.

VARIABLES:

Albedo	Anisotropy	Cloud Amount/Frequency	Dew Point Temperature
Ice Extent	Precipitable Water	Sea Level Pressure	Shortwave Radiation
Skin Temperature	Snow Density	Snow Water Equivalent	Snow/Ice Temperature
Soil Moisture/Water Content	Soil Temperature	Surface Air Temperature	Surface Pressure
Surface Roughness	Surface Winds	Tropospheric Ozone	Vegetation Cover
Vegetation Species	Water Vapor

GRIB parameter table

LEVELS:

See the detailed metadata for level information

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.142S Northernmost=89.142N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
1.125° x ~1.121° from 0E to 358.875E and 89.142N to 89.142S (320 x 160 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
1.875° x ~1.865° from 0E to 358.125E and 88.572N to 88.572S (192 x 96 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
1.125° x ~1.121° from 0E to 358.875E and 89.141N to 89.141S (320 x 160 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
Spherical Harmonics at T106 spectral resolution

SOURCES:

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

RELATED SITES:

ECMWF Web Site

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 ds111.1."

VOLUME:

103.16 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

WMO GRIB1, WMO GRIB0

RELATED DATASETS:

ds111.0 - ECMWF TOGA Global Advanced Operational Spectral Analysis, daily 1985-cont
ds111.2 - ECMWF TOGA 2.5 degree Global Surface and Upper Air Analyses, daily 1985-continuing
ds111.3 - ECMWF TOGA Global Supplementary Fields, 1985-con
ds111.6 - ECMWF TOGA Global Extension Fields, 1991-con
ds117.0 - ERA40 Model Resolution Gridded Surface, Vertical Integrals, and Other Single Level Fields from ECMWF
ds627.0 - ERA-Interim Project

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 Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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