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| CMAP Precipitation
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Monthly and pentad global gridded precipitation means. It includes a standard and enhanced version (with NCEP Reanalysis) from 1979 to near the present.
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| CPC .25x.25 Daily US Unified Precipitation
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High resolution gridded precipitation over the US (from station data) for 1948 to 2006 extending to the present for a real-time version.
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| CPC Hourly Precipitation
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NCEP's hourly gridded US station precipitation from 1948.
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| N.A. |
| CPC Soil Moisture
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Monthly Gridded CPC Soil Moisture from a model from 1948 to present.
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| CRU Air Temperature and Combined Air Temperature/Marine Anomalies V3
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Global gridded (5°x5°) monthly anomalies of observed air temperature and combined observed air and marine temperature (HADCRU3) from the mid 1800's to the present.
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| CRU Air Temperature and Combined Air Temperature/Marine Anomalies V4 |
Global gridded (5°x5°) monthly anomalies of observed air temperature and combined observed air and marine temperature (HADCRU4) from the mid 1800's to December,2010.
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| ERA-Interim Reanalysis
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High resolution gridded reanalysis dataset from ECMWF starting in 1979
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| Dai Palmer Drought Severity Index
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Monthly gridded global PDSI (Palmer Drought Severity Index) values from 1854-2005 from NCAR.
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| GFS Model Output
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A dataset of historical weather forecasts generated with a fixed numerical model. Daily forecasts are comprised of a
15 day, 15-member ensemble and include surface and pressure level variables.
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NOAA GHCN_CAMS Land Temperature Analysis  |
GHCN CAMS is a high resolution (0.5x0.5) analyzed global land surface temperatures from 1948 to near present.
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| GISS surface temperature analysis
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Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS/NASA) surface temperature analysis for the globe; globally gridded at a 2x2 resolution.
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| NCEP GODAS ocean analysis
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High Resolution Multi-level ocean analysis from NCEP
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| Global Preciptiation Climatology Centre (GPCC)
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GPCC Global Preciptiation Climatology Centre monthly precipitation dataset from 1951-present is calculated from global station data.
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| GPCP V2.2 Precipitation
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Global Precipitation Climatology Project monthly precipitation dataset from 1979-present combines observations and satellite precipitation data into 2.5°x2.5° global grids.
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| ICOADS
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Global surface marine data from 1800 to near the present summarized in monthly gridded formats (2°x2° boxes, or 1°x1° boxes from 1960 forward), and offering a variety of statistics. Public Notice: Ongoing Transition of ICOADS Development Due to NOAA Budget Cuts (16 Apr 2012) (pdf)
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| Interpolated OLR
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Gridded daily and monthly OLR data from NCAR with sophisticated spatial and temporal interpolation. See the related Uninterpolated OLR dataset.
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| Kaplan SST
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Gridded global SST anomalies from 1856-present derived from UK Met Office SST data which has had sophisticated statistical techniques applied to it to fill in gaps.
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| MSU
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Two Microwave Sounding Unit tropospheric temperatures and daily average precipitation available in a global grid (2.5°x2.5°).
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| NCEP Operational Analysis
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NCEP's twice-daily global analysis at 2.5° resolution on pressure levels which is a product of their operational forecast system.
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| NCEP Marine
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Marine data gathered by NCEP summarized into ICOADS-compatible (2°x2° box) statistics. Production of this dataset at PSD was phased out effective in Mar. 2011 (thus data cover 1991-Feb. 2011).
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| NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis
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A state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system is used to perform data assimilation using data from 1948 to the present.
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| NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Products Derived at PSD
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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.
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| NCEP/DOE Reanalysis II
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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.
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| NOAA Extended Reconstructed SST
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A global monthly SST analysis from 1854 to the present derived from ICOADS data with missing data filled in by statistical methods.
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| NOAA High-resolution Blended Analysis of Daily SST and Ice. |
NOAA High-resolution Blended Analysis of Daily SST and Ice. Data is from 1985 and is on a 1/4 deg global grid.
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| NOAA Merged Land-Ocean Surface Temperature Analysis (MLOST) V3.5.2 |
Monthly Anomalies of air temperature from the GHCN and the NOAAERSST V3b
dataset.
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| N/A |
| NOAA Optimum Interpolation (OI) SST V2
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Produced weekly on a 1° grid. The analysis uses in situ and satellite
SST's plus SST's simulated by sea-ice cover. Before the analysis is computed, the satellite data is adjusted for biases. Monthly and monthly long-term means are also available.
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| NOAA Highly Reflective Clouds
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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.
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| NODC (Levitus) World Ocean Atlas 1994
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Annual, seasonal and monthly long term means for temperature and salinity at multiple depth. Several statistics such as number of observations are included in separate files.
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| NODC (Levitus) World Ocean Atlas 1998
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The atlas contains annual, seasonal, and monthly long term means for temperature and salinity at multiple depths. Several statistics, including nobs are included in separate files, along with two "mask" files.
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| NOAA's Precipitation Reconstruction (PREC)
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NOAA's Precipitation Reconstruction (PREC)
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| NOAA's Precipitation Reconstruction over Land (PREC/L)
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NOAA's Precipitation Reconstrucion over Land (PREC/L)
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| North American Regional Renalaysis (NARR)
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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.
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| Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent
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The NSIDC weekly snowcover and ice dataset has been interpolated to a 1°x1° Northern Hemisphere grid and a monthly time-scale covering 1971 to 1995.
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| 20th Century Reanalysis (V2)
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20th Century Reanalysis contains objectively-analyzed 4-dimensional weather maps and their uncertainty from the late 19th century to 21st century. | Catalog
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| U. of Delaware Precipitation and Air Temperature
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Monthly global gridded high resolution station (land) data for air temperature and precipitation from 1900-2010.
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| Uninterpolated OLR
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OLR data from NCEP without interpolation. See the Interpolated OLR dataset for an interpolated version.
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