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Arkin's Monthly Tropical Wind and OLR, 1968-1984

Monthly tropical strip wind and outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). OLR is the 1985 revised calibration. For the 1974-1978 period, the winds here are better than in the NMC analyses.



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PERIODS: 1968-03 to 1985-02
VARIABLES:
Longwave RadiationUpper Level Winds
LEVELS:
1000 mbar850 mbar700 mbar500 mbar
300 mbar200 mbar  
TIMES: Every month
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE:
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 J.S. Winston, 1978: Earth-atmosphere radiative heating based on NOAA scanning radiometer instruments. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 59, 1570-1573.

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 ds719.0."
VOLUME: 26.47 MBytes
DATA FORMATS: Binary (see dataset documentation)
CONTACT: For assistance with this dataset, please contact Gregg Walters (303-497-1218) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.
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