PSD Gridded Climate Datasets: Daily

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DatasetsDescription
CPC .25x.25 Daily US Unified Precipitation US high resolution gridded precipitation (from station data) for 1948 to 1998.
Interpolated OLR OLR data from NCAR with sophisticated spatial and temporal interpolation. See the related Uninterpolated OLR dataset.
MSU Two Microwave Sounding Unit tropospheric temperatures and daily average precipitation available in a global grid (2.5°x2.5°).
North American Regional Renalaysis (NARR) NCEP's high resolution combined model and assimilated dataset. It covers 1979 to near present and is provided 8-times daily, daily and monthly on a Northern Hemisphere Lambert Conformal Conic grid for all variables.
NCEP Operational Analysis NCEP's twice-daily global analysis at 2.5° resolution on pressure levels which is a product of their operational forecast system.
NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis A state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system is used to perform data assimilation using data from 1948 to the present.
PSD Derived NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Products A subset of the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis has been processed to create monthly means of the original data, and in some cases, derived variables or other statistics.
NCEP/DOE Reanalysis II A state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system is used to perform data assimilation using data from 1979 through 2003. A large subset of this data is available from PSD in its original 4 times daily format and as daily averages.
NOAA Highly Reflective Clouds Subjectively identified areas of large-scale organized convection over the global tropics have been gridded daily for a 15-year period from 1971 to 1988.
Uninterpolated OLR OLR data from NCEP without interpolation. See the Interpolated OLR dataset for an interpolated version.