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Historical THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) Data Archive

This datasets holds all THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) forecast data archived on the NCAR MSS. The archive ranges from Oct 1, 2006 to near the current date. Global ensemble model data are available from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ecmf), United Kingdom Met Office (egrr), National Centers for Environmental Prediction (kwbc), Japan Meteorological Agency (rjtd), Australia Bureau of Meteorology (ammc), China Meteorological Administration (babj), MeteoFrance (lfpw), Meteorological Service of Canada (cwao), Centro de Previsao Tempo e Estudos Climaticos-Brazil (sbsj), and Korea Meteorological Administration (rksl).


PERIODS: 2006-10-01 00:00 +0000 to 2009-09-26 06:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)
Period details by subset
UPDATES: Monthly (nominally)
USAGE:

Usage is restricted to non-commercial, educational and research purposes only.

VARIABLES:
Air TemperatureCloud Amount/FrequencyCloud Liquid Water/IceDew Point Temperature
Geopotential HeightHeat FluxHumidityIncoming Solar Radiation
Outgoing Longwave RadiationPotential TemperaturePrecipitation AmountSea Level Pressure
Sea Surface TemperatureSkin TemperatureSnow Water EquivalentSoil Moisture/Water Content
Soil TemperatureSunshineSurface Air TemperatureSurface Pressure
Surface WindsTopographical ReliefUpper Level WindsVorticity
Water Vapor   
LEVELS: See the detailed metadata for level information
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: ECMWF
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
GB/MOD/MET
Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
JP/JMA
Japan Meteorological Agency, Japan
CN/CMA
China Meteorological Administration, China
AU/BOM
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
CA/EC/MSC/CMC
Canadian Meteorological Centre, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environment Canada
BR/MST/INPE/CPTEC
Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Analysis, National Institute for Space Research, Ministry of Science and Technology, Brazil
FR/CNRM
Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques, France
RELATED SITES: ECMWF TIGGE portal
TIGGE data overview
Access near real-time TIGGE forecast files for internet download.
NCAR TIGGE Web Portal, provides grid interpolation, parameter and spatial sub-setting for the most recent 2 weeks of TIGGE forecast cycles
CMA TIGGE portal
TIGGE LAM project page.
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 ds330.0."
VOLUME: 275384.91 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset
DATA FORMATS: WMO GRIB2
RELATED DATASETS: ds330.2 - Near-Realtime Online THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) Data
ds330.3 - TIGGE Tropical Cyclone Track Data

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 Doug Schuster (303-497-1216) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
DATA ACCESS: Click the tab here or in the navigation bar at the top of the page.
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