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ERA-40 Global Upper Air Satellite Wind Observation Feedback Record Reports

ERA-40 Global Upper Air Satellite Wind Observation Feedback Record Reports include upper air satellite wind observation (SATWND) feedback record reports from SATWNDs used in the ECMWF 45-year reanalysis (ERA-40) covering the period from September 1957 to August 2002. SATWNDs, from multiple data sources, were assimilated into an ECMWF model and produced ERA-40. Select variables include U-wind, and V-wind speed components at the observed pressure level. The metadata generated during the ERA-40 quality control (QC)/data assimilation process were appended to the input observations. The final combination of input observations and feedback metadata are called feedback record reports.

More information is available.

PERIODS:

1978-12-01 to 2002-08-31

ACCESS:

We are allowed to distribute this data to US scientists, scientists visiting US organizations, and Canadian scientists affiliated with UCAR member organizations only.

USAGE:

This data must not be used for commercial purposes. ECMWF must be given credit in any publications in which this data is used.

VARIABLES:

Atmospheric Pressure Measurements

Upper Level Winds

LEVELS:

Tropopause level

500 mbar

TIMES:

Every 3 hours

TYPES:

Satellite

SOURCES:

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

RELATED SITES:

ECMWF's ERA-40 home page

PUBLICATIONS:

ERA40 Report Series
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 ds367.0."

VOLUME:

5.22 GBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
ERA-40 Global Upper Air Satellite Wind Observation Feedback Record Reports: 5.22 GBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII

RELATED DATASETS:

ds366.0 - ERA-40 Global Upper Air Radiosonde Observation Feedback Record Reports
ds476.0 - ERA-40 Global Land Surface Observation Feedback Record Reports

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Doug Schuster (303-497-1216) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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