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NCEP ADP Global Upper Air and Surface (PREPBUFR format) Weather Observations, May 1997 - Continuing
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NCEP ADP Global Upper Air and Surface (PREPBUFR format) Weather Observations are composed of a global set of surface and upper air reports operationally collected by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). These include land surface, marine surface, radiosonde, pibal and aircraft reports from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS), profiler and US radar derived winds, SSM/I oceanic winds and TCW retrievals, and satellite wind data from the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). The reports can include pressure, geopotential height, temperature, dewpoint temperature, wind direction and speed. Report time intervals range from hourly to 12 hourly. These data are the primary input to the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS), which is used to create the NCEP Final Analyses (FNL).
More information is available.
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| PERIODS: |
1997-04-30 to 2009-11-20 (Entire dataset)
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1997-04-30 to 2009-11-20 (Daily Unrestricted GDAS PREPBUFR data)
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Atmospheric Pressure Measurements | Cloud Amount/Frequency | Cloud Base |
| Cloud Types | Dew Point Temperature | Geopotential Height | Precipitable Water |
| Precipitation Amount | Sea Level Pressure | Sea Surface Temperature | Snow |
| Station Height | Surface Winds | Upper Level Winds | Visibility |
| Wave Height | Wave Period | Wave Speed/Direction | |
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| TYPES: |
Platform Observation
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| COVERAGE: |
See the detailed metadata for coverage information
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| SOURCES: |
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| RELATED SITES: |
NCEP BUFR software library
PREPBUFR Processing at NCEP
NCEP model data (includes prepbufr files in the gdas.* directories)
NCDC gdas prepbufr obs archive.
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| 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 ds337.0."
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| VOLUME: |
203.91 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subsetVolume details by subset:
Daily Unrestricted GDAS PREPBUFR data: 203.91 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
WMO BUFR
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| RELATED DATASETS: |
ds083.2 - NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from July 1999
ds336.0 - Historical Unidata Internet Data Distribution (IDD) Global Observational Data, May 2003 - current
ds351.0 - NCEP ADP Global Upper Air Observational Weather Data, daily, April 2000 - continuing
ds353.4 - NCEP ADP Operational Global Upper Air Observations, December 1972 - February 2007
ds461.0 - NCEP ADP Global Surface Observational Weather Data, daily, April 2000 - continuing
ds464.0 - NCEP ADP Operational Global Surface Observations, February 1975 - February 2007
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| MORE DETAILS: |
View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Doug Schuster (303-497-1216)
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Gregg Walters (303-497-1218)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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