| PERIODS: |
2005-05-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-06-01 00:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)
 Period details by subset Period details by subset:
2005-05-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-06-01 00:00 +0000
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| USAGE: |
This data must not be used for commercial purposes and re-distribution rights are not given. ECMWF and Joint OSSEs must be given credit in any publications in which this data is used. NCAR will track users and informed to ECMWF and Joint OSSE.
If you are interested in using the data set it is necessary to send E-mail with the statement below, and your name and affiliation to to Michiko Masutani (michiko.masutani@noaa.gov). Your name will be added to the user list and sent to ECMWF.
"I agree not to copy the ECMWF data or software provided by NCAR for the use of other persons, and I agree not to use these data and/or software for commercial purposes. ECMWF will be given credit in any publications in which these data and/or software are used. I understand that if other persons in my organization wish to use these data and/or software, they must also sign a copy of this agreement. "
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| VARIABLES: |
| Air Temperature | Cloud Amount/Frequency | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | Convergence/Divergence |
| Dew Point Temperature | Geopotential Height | Humidity | Hydrostatic Pressure |
| Precipitation Amount | Sea Level Pressure | Skin Temperature | Snow Depth |
| Streamfunctions | Surface Air Temperature | Surface Pressure | Surface Winds |
| Tropospheric Ozone | Upper Level Winds | Vertical Wind Motion | Vorticity |
GRIB parameter table
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| LEVELS: |
See the detailed metadata for level information
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=0E Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage informationDetailed coverage information:
0.352° x ~0.351° from 0E to 359.625E and 89.731N to 89.731S (reduced n256 Gaussian Longitude/Latitude)
1° x 1°, 0E to 359E and 90N to 90S (360 x 181 Longitude/Latitude)
0.5° x 0.5°, 0.25E to 359.75E and 89.75N to 89.75S (720 x 360 Longitude/Latitude)
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| SOURCES: |
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
ECMWFEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
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| RELATED SITES: |
List of references
Progress and Meeting Notes
NASA OSSE Home Page
THORPEX OSSE Home Page
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Matsutani et al., 2007: Progress in Joint OSSEs. A new nature run and international collaboration. Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Salt Lake City, UT.
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 ds621.0."
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| VOLUME: |
108.77 GBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subsetVolume details by subset:
: 7.75 GBytes
: 95.10 GBytes
: 5.92 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
WMO GRIB1
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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
Chi-Fan Shih (303-497-1833)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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| COMMUNITY: |
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