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GFDL Atmospheric Circulation Analyses by Bram Oort, monthly 1958May-1973Apr

The "classic" derived by Bram Oort from MIT, GTS, ETAC, NCDC and NCAR data. See also DS431.0.

Unless you have a special interest in this dataset, DSS recommends that you use one of our reanalysis datasets, such as ds090.2. That's because those are based on a more complete collection of observations, improved analysis methods, and are provided in a common modern format (GRIB).

PERIODS:

1958-05 to 1973-04

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Convergence/Divergence	Geopotential Height	Humidity
Potential Temperature	Upper Level Winds	Vertical Wind Motion	Vorticity

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface	1000 mbar	950 mbar	900 mbar
850 mbar	700 mbar	500 mbar	400 mbar
300 mbar	200 mbar	100 mbar	50 mbar

TIMES:

Every month

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
5.0° x 2.5°, 180.0W to 180.0W and 90.0S to 90.0N (73 x 73 Longitude/Latitude)

SOURCES:

DOC/NOAA/GFDL

NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Commerce

PUBLICATIONS:

Oort, A.H., 1983: Global Atmospheric Circulation Statistics. Professional Paper No. 14, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington D.C., 180 pp.

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 ds217.0."

VOLUME:

3.05 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Gregg Walters (303-497-1218) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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