NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1: Pressure
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One-Line Description:
- NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1
Temporal Coverage:
- 4-times daily, daily and monthly values for 1948/01/01 to present
- Long term monthly means, derived from data for years 1968 - 1996
- Values are instantaneous at the time indicated in the files
Spatial Coverage:
- 2.5 degree x 2.5 degree global grids (144x73)
- 0.0E to 357.5E, 90.0N to 90.0S
Levels:
- 17 Pressure levels (mb): 1000,925,850,700,600,500,400,300,250,200,150,100,70,50,30,20,10
- Some variables have less: omega (to 100mb) and Humidities (to 300mb).
Update Schedule:
- Daily
Download/Plot Data:
Variable | Statistic | Level | Download File | Create Plot/Subset |
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Air Temperature | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Air Temperature | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Air Temperature | Monthly Mean | Pressure | air.mon.mean.nc | |
Geopotential Height | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Geopotential Height | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Geopotential Height | Monthly Mean | Pressure | hgt.mon.mean.nc | |
Relative Humidity | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Relative Humidity | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Relative Humidity | Monthly Mean | Pressure | rhum.mon.mean.nc | |
Specific Humidity | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Specific Humidity | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Specific Humidity | Monthly Mean | Pressure | shum.mon.mean.nc | |
Omega (Vertical Velocity) | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Omega (Vertical Velocity) | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
Omega (Vertical Velocity) | Monthly Mean | Pressure | omega.mon.mean.nc | |
U-Wind | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
U-Wind | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
U-Wind | Monthly Mean | Pressure | uwnd.mon.mean.nc | |
V-Wind | 4-times Daily | Pressure | see list | |
V-Wind | Daily | Pressure | see list | |
V-Wind | Monthly Mean | Pressure | vwnd.mon.mean.nc |
 
 
Usage Restrictions:
- None
Detailed Description:
- The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 project is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1948 to the present. A large subset of this data is available from PSD in its original 4 times daily format and as daily averages. However, the data from 1948-1957 is a little different, in the regular (non-Gaussian) gridded data. That data was done at 8 times daily in the model, because the inputs available in that era were available at 3Z, 9Z, 15Z, and 21Z, whereas the 4x daily data has been available at 0Z, 6Z, 12Z, and 18Z. These latter times were forecasted and the combined result for this early era is 8x daily. The local ingestion process took only the 0Z, 6Z, 12Z, and 18Z forecasted values, and thus only those were used to make the daily time series and monthly means here.
Caveats:
- Please read the problem list before using the data.
Related File Naming & Structure Information:
File Names:
- 4-times daily /Datasets/ncep.reanalysis/pressure/var.yyyy.nc
- Daily data in /Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.dailyavgs/pressure/var.yyyy.nc
- Monthly mean and climatologies in /Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/pressure/ var.time.stat.nc
Dataset Format and Size:
Missing Data:
- Missing data is flagged with a value of 32767s or 9.36e36f..
Citation:
- For dataset source, please cite:Kalnay et al.,The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-470, 1996.
- Please note: If you acquire NCEP Reanalysis data products from PSD, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as NCEP Reanalysis data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSD to justify keeping the NCEP Reanalysis data set freely available online in the future. Thank you!
References:
- March, 1996 BAMS
Original Source:
- NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction
Contact:
- Physical Sciences Division: Data Management
NOAA/ESRL/PSD
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305-3328
esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov