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CDROMs of Northern Hemisphere Gridded Analyses, 1946-1994Dec

Version III CD-ROMs include twice daily analyses from 1946 through December 1994. Selected daily grids (not on CD-ROMs) of 1995-2007 are now available as of 2008DEC13.


PERIODS: 1946-01 to 1994-12
UPDATES: Yearly (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureGeopotential HeightHumiditySea Level Pressure
Upper Level WindsVertical Wind Motion  
LEVELS:
Mean sea level850 mbar700 mbar666-1000 mbar
500 mbar250 mbar100 mbar 
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=4.861S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS
Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Mass, C.F., H.J. Edmon, H.J. Friedman, N.R. Cheney, and E.E. Recker, 1987: The use of compact discs for the storage of large meteorological and oceanographic data sets. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 68, 1556-1558.

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 ds195.5."
VOLUME: 356.06 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: DSS Octagonal Grid
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Chi-Fan Shih (303-497-1833) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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