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Lau's Northern Hemisphere Circulation Statistics, winters 1965-1976

Winter seasonal circulation statistics for the Northern Hemisphere were derived from NMC analyses by Ngar-Cheung Lau. Grids are available at various tropospheric levels between 1000 and 100 millibars. The period of record is 1965 to 1976, with each winter consisting of the 120 days beginning November 15.

PERIODS:

1965-11 to 1976-03

VARIABLES:

Air Temperature	Convergence/Divergence	Geopotential Height	Upper Level Winds
Vorticity

LEVELS:

1000 mbar	850 mbar	700 mbar	500 mbar
400 mbar	300 mbar	250 mbar	200 mbar
150 mbar	100 mbar

TYPES:

Grid

SOURCES:

UWA/ATMOS

Department of Atmospheric Science, University of Washington

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 ds820.0."

VOLUME:

38.25 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

Binary (see dataset documentation)

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Bob Dattore (303-497-1825) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

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