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Waliser and Zhou Satellite ECT-Corrected Monthly Tropical OLR and HRC Datasets

Gridded analyses of OLR (Outgoing Longwave Radiation) and HRC (Highly Reflective Cloud) anomalies wherein the bias due to changing equatorial crossing times has been estimated and removed. The OLR data is available for 30N-30S and the HRC is availalbe for 24N-24S. This dataset also contains long term monthly climatologies for both OLR and HRC.

Note that this dataset is obsolete and users should use dataset ds684.1 instead.



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PERIODS: 1971-01 to 1996-07
VARIABLES:
Longwave Radiation
TIMES: Every month (Mean) Annual Climatology
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=30S Northernmost=30N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: SUNY-SB/MSRC/ITPA
Institute for Terrestrial and Planetary Atmospheres, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, Stony Brook
PUBLICATIONS: Waliser, D.E. and W. Zhou, 1997: Removing Satellite Equatorial Crossing Time Biases from the OLR and HRC Datasets. J. Clim., 10(9), 2125-2146.

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 ds684.0."
VOLUME: 15.44 MBytes (Entire dataset)
Volume details by subset
DATA FORMATS: Binary (see dataset documentation)
RELATED DATASETS: ds684.1 - Lucas and Waliser Satellite ECT-Corrected Daily, Pentad and Monthly Global OLR Datasets

CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Joey Comeaux (303-497-1256) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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