Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-ornldaac-1222

ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters

ABSTRACT: This data set for the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection provides meteorology data with fixed, monthly, monthly-6-hourly, 6-hourly, and 3-hourly temporal resolutions. The data were derived from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) near-surface meteorology data set, 40-year re-analysis, or ERA-40 (Simmons and Gibson, 2000), which covers the years 1957 to 2001. The data were processed onto the ISLSCP II Earth grid with a spatial resolution of 1-degree in both latitude and longitude, and span the common ISLSCP II period from 1986 to 1995. The ECMWF forecast system is called the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) and was developed in co-operation with Meteo-France. For ERA40 it is used with 60 levels from the top of the model at 10 Pa to the lowest level at about 10 m above the surface. There are 46 compressed (.tar.gz) data files with this data set. Each uncompressed file contains space-delimited text (.asc) data files.

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Identified by : ECMWF_MET_1DEG

This dataset was released on January 01, 2014.

The time range for this dataset is January 01, 1985 to December 31, 1998.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

DOI : 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222
Also known as :

• dataset oai:mercury-ops2.ornl.gov:ornldaac_1222 (ornl lexicon)
• dataset oai:mercury.ornl.gov:ornldaac_1222 (ornl lexicon)