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NOAA Physical Sciences Division 20th Century Reanalysis
Entry ID: NOAA_PSD_TWENTIETH_CENTURY_REANALYSIS

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Summary

Abstract: [Source: Twentieth Century Reanalysis (V1), NOAA PSD, http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_Rean.html ]

The analysis is performed with the Ensemble Filter as described in Compo et al. (2006).Observations of surface pressure and sea level pressure from the International Surface Pressure Databank version1.1 and ICOADS version 2.4 were assimilated every six hours. The short-term forecast ensemble is generated in parallel from 56 9-hour integrations of a state-of-the-art atmospheric general circulation model, the atmospheric component of NCEP's operational Climate Forecast System model (Saha et al. 2006). Briefly, the model has a spatial resolution of nearly 200-km on an irregular Gaussian grid in the horizontal (corresponding to a spherical harmonic representation of model fields truncated at total wavenumber 62, T62). In the vertical, for efficiency, we have reduced the resolution from a finite differencing of 64 levels to 28 levels with no detrimental effects to the reanalysis quality. The model top is at 0.2 hPa. The model has a complete suite of physical parameterizations as described in Kanamitsu et al. 1991) with recent updates detailed in Moorthi et al. (2001). Additional updates to these parameterizations, specific to this version of the model, are described in Saha et al. and include revised solar radiation transfer, boundary layer vertical diffusion, cumulus convection,and gravity wave drag parameterizations. In addition, the cloud liquid water is a prognostic quantity with a simple cloud microphysics parameterization. The radiation interacts with a fractional cloud cover that is diagnostically determined by the predicted cloud liquid water. The specified boundary conditions needed to run the model in atmosphere-only mode are taken from the time-evolving sea surface temperature and sea ice fields of the HadISST1.1 dataset obtained courtesy of the United Kingdom Met Office Hadley Centre Rayner et al. 2003).

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Geographic Coverage

N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD
Dataset Title: 20th Century Reanalysis data
Dataset Release Place: Boulder, CO, USA
Dataset Publisher: NOAA/OAR/ESRL/PSD
Version: 1
Online Resource: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_Rean.html

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1908-01-01

Stop Date: 1958-12-31

Start Date: 1921-01-01

Stop Date: 1950-12-31

Location Keywords

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL
VERTICAL LOCATION > LAND SURFACE
VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE
VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE

Data Resolution
Latitude Resolution: 2 Degree
Longitude Resolution: 2 Degree
Temporal Resolution: Monthly

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
ENVIRONMENT

Project

ESIP >Earth Science Information Partners Program [Information]

Quality

View "Opportunities for Improvement" for quality information:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/20thC_Rean/opportunities....

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Please cite the data set creator if you use this data. Link for citation information:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_Rean.html#cita...

Keywords

OMEGA

SURFACE OMEGA

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD

Data Center

Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce [Information]
Data Center URL: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/

Data Center Personnel

Name: ESRL/PSD DATA INQUIRIES
Email: esrl.psd.data at noaa.gov

Personnel

GIL COMPO
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: compo at colorado.edu
Contact Address:
Research Scientist
CIRES University of Colorado

SCOTT A. RITZ
Role: DIF AUTHOR
Phone: 301-614-5126
Fax: 301-614-5268
Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov
Contact Address:
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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City: Greenbelt
Province or State: Maryland
Postal Code: 20771
Country: USA

Publications/References

Link for reference information:
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_Rean.html#refe...

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2009-07-20

Last DIF Revision Date: 2009-11-04

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