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U.S. Navy 10-Minute Global Elevation and Geographic Characteristics

This free dataset, compiled by the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center (with data help from NCAR), contains global elevation data at 10-minute resolution. Each 10-minute x 10-minute area contains modal, maximum and minimum elevations, orientation of ridges, terrain characteristics, and urban development. These data are current as of December 1984.

PERIODS:

VARIABLES:

Terrain Elevation

LEVELS:

Ground or water surface

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
0.1666° x 0.1666°, 0.0E to 359.8333E and 90.0S to 90.0N (2160 x 1081 Longitude/Latitude)

SOURCES:

DOD/USNAVY/FNMOC

Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.S. Navy, U. S. Department of Defense

PUBLICATIONS:

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 ds754.0."

VOLUME:

78.93 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

ASCII (see dataset documentation), 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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