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  ds062.0 Detailed Metadata

Overview
Dataset Citation:
U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction, 1980: Daily Northern Hemisphere 47x51 Forecast Grids, sporadically between November 1967 and December 1971. Dataset ds062.0 published by the CISL Data Support Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, available online at http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds062.0/.
Types of data:
  • Grids
 Data formats:
Data contributors:
  • DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP > National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Total volume:  59.896 Mbytes

Summary for Grids in DSS Octagonal Grid Format
Product and Coverage Information:
There are multiple products and/or geographical coverages for the grids in this format. Click a variable name to see the available products and coverages for that variable.
Variable
Vertical LevelsTemporal Valid Range
Absolute vorticity
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Analyzed wind speed (knot)
• Isobaric level: 980 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 700 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 300 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-03 00:00
• Isobaric level: 200 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Difference (height or streamfunction) values (cm)
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1970-03-30 12:00 to 1971-12-15 12:00
Geopotential height
• Isobaric level: 1000 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 850 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 700 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 300 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 250 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1967-12-30 18:00
• Isobaric level: 200 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Min temperature
• Isobaric level: 1001 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 990 mbar  1971-12-08 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Potential temperature (deg K)
• Isobaric level: 950 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 770 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Precipitable water (inch)
• Isobaric level: Bottom=1000 mbar, Top=400 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
Pressure
• Isobaric level: 1013 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1970-04-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 990 mbar  1971-12-08 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Relative humidity
• Isobaric level: Bottom=1000 mbar, Top=400 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
Stream functions made at NMC (cm2 s-1)
• Isobaric level: 980 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
• Isobaric level: 850 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 200 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Surface pressure (cbar)
• Isobaric level: 1001 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1970-04-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 990 mbar  1971-12-08 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Temperature
• Isobaric level: 700 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1972-01-03 00:00
• Isobaric level: 300 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 200 mbar  1967-12-02 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 150 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Thickness values (cm)
• Isobaric level: Bottom=850 mbar, Top=500 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
• Isobaric level: Bottom=500 mbar, Top=300 mbar  1967-12-02 00:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
• Isobaric level: Bottom=1000 mbar, Top=500 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1968-01-01 00:00
Tropopause pressure (deg C)
• Isobaric level: 980 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Tropopause temperature (deg C)
• Isobaric level: 980 mbar  1967-12-01 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
Tropospheric wind shear (knot [1000 foot]-1)
• Isobaric level: 980 mbar  1967-12-01 12:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
U wind component
• Isobaric level: 850 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 300 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
V wind component
• Isobaric level: 850 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
• Isobaric level: 300 mbar  1971-07-15 12:00 to 1972-01-02 12:00
Vertical velocity
• Isobaric level: 1000 mbar  1970-03-31 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 850 mbar  1970-03-31 00:00 to 1971-12-17 00:00
• Isobaric level: 650 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 500 mbar  1970-03-31 00:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00
• Isobaric level: 350 mbar  1967-11-30 12:00 to 1972-01-04 00:00

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