NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2, 6-hourly

6-hourly: Gaussian Grid

The NCEP/DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (Reanalysis-2) is based on the widely used NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2 is an improved version of the NCEP Reanalysis I model that fixed errors and updated parameterizations of physical processes. It is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1979 through the previous year. A large subset of this data is available from the Physical Sciences Division (PSD) at NOAA in its original 4 times daily format and as daily averages.

Reference:
NCEP-DOE AMIP-II Reanalysis (R-2): M. Kanamitsu, W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S-K Yang, J.J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, and G. L. Potter. 1631-1643, Nov 2002, Bul. of the Atmos. Met. Soc.

Variables
Air temperature at 2 meters (degK)
Convective Precipitation Rate at Surface (Kg/m^2/s)
Pressure at the Low Cloud Top (Pascals)
U-Wind at 10m (m/s)
V-Wind at 10m (m/s)
Zonal Global by T62 Gaussian grid
Meridional Global by T62 Gaussian grid
Vertical Surface or near the surface, nominal top of atmosphere (NTAT), entire atmosphere as a column, cloud pressure levels
Please check the list of the variables (above) for levels of each variable  
Temporal Jan 01, 1979 to Oct 31, 2024 by 6 hour(s)
Static? no
Volume 51MB per variable per year
Server public:
Source http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis2.gaussian.html 
Acquired Jan 16, 2015 (Updated Nov 2024)
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