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  ds131.0 Detailed Metadata

Overview
Dataset Citation:
U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration [Earth System Research Laboratory], updated irregularly: NOAA-CIRES Twentieth Century Global Reanalysis Version I (1908-1958). Dataset ds131.0 published by the CISL Data Support Section at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, available online at http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds131.0/.
Types of data:
  • Grids
 Data formats:
Data contributors:
  • DOC/NOAA/ESRL > Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Projects that are supported by the data:
  • WRF > WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) Modelling
Total volume:  3.658 Tbytes

Summary for Grids in WMO GRIB1 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
Albedo (%)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Cloud water (kg m-2)
• Entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Cloud workfunction (J kg-1)
• Entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Convective available potential energy (J kg-1)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Convective inhibition (J kg-1)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Convective precipitation rate (kg m-2 s-1)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Downward long wave radiation flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Downward short wave radiation flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Geopotential height (gpm)
• Ground or water surface  1900-04-19 21:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 70 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 50 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 30 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 20 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 10 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Tropopause  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Ground heat flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Ice cover (fraction)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Land cover (fraction)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Latent heat flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Maximum temperature (K)
• Specified height above ground: 2 m  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Meridional flux of gravity wave stress (N m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Minimum temperature (K)
• Specified height above ground: 2 m  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Momentum flux, u-component (N m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Momentum flux, v-component (N m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Planetary boundary layer height (m)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Potential evaporation rate (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Potential temperature (K)
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Precipitable water (kg m-2)
• Entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Precipitation rate (kg m-2 s-1)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Pressure (Pa)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Tropopause  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Pressure reduced to MSL (Pa)
• Mean sea level  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Pressure vertical velocity (Pa s-1)
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Relative humidity (%)
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Sensible heat flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Specific humidity (kg kg-1)
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Specified height above ground: 2 m  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Temperature (K)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 70 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 50 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 30 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 20 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 10 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Layer between two depths below land surface: Bottom=10 cm, Top=0 cm  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Layer between two depths below land surface: Bottom=200 cm, Top=10 cm  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Specified height above ground: 2 m  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Tropopause  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Total cloud cover (%)
• Boundary layer cloud layer  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Convective cloud layer  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• High cloud layer  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Low cloud layer  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Middle cloud layer  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Total ozone (Dobson)
• Entire atmosphere (considered as a single layer)  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
u-component of wind (m s-1)
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 70 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 50 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 30 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 20 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 10 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Specified height above ground: 10 m  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Tropopause  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Upward long wave radiation flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Nominal top of atmosphere  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Upward short wave radiation flux (W m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Nominal top of atmosphere  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
v-component of wind (m s-1)
• Isobaric surface: 1000 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 950 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 900 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 850 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 800 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 750 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 700 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 650 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 600 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 550 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 500 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 450 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 400 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 350 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 300 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 250 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 200 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 150 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 100 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 70 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 50 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 30 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 20 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Isobaric surface: 10 mbar  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Sigma level: 0.995   1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
• Specified height above ground: 10 m  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Tropopause  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1958-12-31 18:00
Volumetric soil moisture content (fraction)
• Layer between two depths below land surface: Bottom=10 cm, Top=0 cm  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
• Layer between two depths below land surface: Bottom=200 cm, Top=10 cm  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Water equivalent of accumulated snow depth (kg m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Water run-off (kg m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 03:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00
Zonal flux of gravity wave stress (N m-2)
• Ground or water surface  1908-01-01 00:00 to 1959-01-01 00:00

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