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CAC Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Monthly Means and Half Month Means, 1974Jun-1999Feb

This dataset contains monthly and semi-monthly means of outgoing longwave radiation derived from polar orbiting satellites passing over each earth location at least twice daily. The data from both the "morning" and "evening" passes are on a global 2.5-degree latitude/longitude grid.


PERIODS: 1974-06 to 1999-02
VARIABLES:
Longwave Radiation
TIMES: Every month Every 2 weeks
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC
Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Gruber, A. and A.F. Krueger, 1984: The status of the NOAA outgoing longwave radiation data set. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 65, 958-962.

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 ds718.5."
VOLUME: 28.00 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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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