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CDROMs of Northern Hemisphere Gridded Analyses, 1946-1994Dec
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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.
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| PERIODS: |
1946-01 to 1994-12
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| UPDATES: |
Yearly (nominally)
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Geopotential Height | Humidity | Sea Level Pressure |
| Upper Level Winds | Vertical Wind Motion | | |
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| LEVELS: |
| Mean sea level | 850 mbar | 700 mbar | 666-1000 mbar |
| 500 mbar | 250 mbar | 100 mbar | |
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=4.861S Northernmost=90N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
381km x 381km (at 60N) oriented 80W (47x51 North Polar Stereographic)
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| 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/FNMOCFleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEPNational Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| 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."
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| VOLUME: |
356.06 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
DSS Octagonal Grid
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| 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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| DATA ACCESS: |
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