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Masutani's ECMWF Global Tropospheric Climate Analyses, 1979Mar-1989Feb
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This dataset contains yearly, six-year, and ten-year seasonal
means of geopotential height, temperature, wind, specific
humidity, and vertical motion for atmospheric levels from 1000mb
up to 30mb. These means are based on the ECMWF daily
operational analyses and are on a global 5-degree
latitude/longitude grid.
The ten-year period is March 1979 to February 1989. The
six-year climatology is included because the tropical fields
were improved significantly when diabatic initialization was
introduced into the analysis scheme in September 1982.
More information is available.
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| PERIODS: |
1979-03 to 1989-02
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Geopotential Height | Humidity | Upper Level Winds |
| Vertical Wind Motion | | | |
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| LEVELS: |
| 1000 mbar | 850 mbar | 700 mbar | 500 mbar |
| 400 mbar | 300 mbar | 250 mbar | 200 mbar |
| 150 mbar | 100 mbar | 50 mbar | 30 mbar |
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| TIMES: |
Every season (Mean)
Winter Season Climatology
Spring Season Climatology
Summer Season Climatology
Autumn Season Climatology
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
5° x 5°, 0E to 355E and 90N to 90S (72 x 37 Longitude/Latitude)
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| SOURCES: |
U-READING/MET Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Hoskins B.J., H.H. Hsu, I.N. James, M. Masutani, P.D. Sardesmukh, and G.H. White, 1989: Diagnostics of the Global Atmospheric Circulation based on ECMWF analyses 1979-1989. UGAMP Tech. Rep. 7, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, 217 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 ds219.0."
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| VOLUME: |
547.80 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation),
Binary (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Bob Dattore (303-497-1825)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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