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NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)

Entry ID: NCAR_DS608.0

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Summary

Abstract: The NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis products are on Eta 221 grid (32km)
at 29 pressure levels. They were produced using Eta 32km/45-layer
model. The input data includes all observations used in NCEP/NCAR
Global Reanalysis project, and additional precipitation data,
TOVS-1B radiances, profiler data, land surface and moisture data,
etc. The output analyses are 3-hourly with additional 9 variables in
the 3-hour forecasts to reflect accumulations or averages.

Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS > Data Support Section, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Dataset Title: NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR)

Dataset Publisher: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS > Data Support Section, Scientific Computing Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Online Resource: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds608.0/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1979-01-01

Stop Date: 2007-04-30

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT

ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > TROPOPAUSE

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Project

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Ancillary Keywords

ETA > NCEP Eta Model

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Data Center

Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Data Center URL: http://rda.ucar.edu/
Dataset ID: 608.0

Data Center Personnel
Name: RDA HELP DESK Phone: (303)-497-1231 Fax: (303)-497-1291 Email: dssweb at ucar.edu Contact Address: National Center for Atmospheric Research CISL/DSS P.O. Box 3000 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307 Country: U.S.A.

Distribution

Distribution Size: 16.058 Tbytes

Distribution Format: GRIB1 > GRIdded Binary form, Edition 1

Personnel

BOB DATTORE

Role: DIF AUTHOR

Phone: (303)-497-1825

Fax: (303)-497-1291

Email: dattore at ucar.edu

Contact Address:

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DSS

P.O. Box 3000

City: Boulder

Province or State: CO

Postal Code: 80307

Country: U.S.A.

CHI-FAN SHIH

Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Phone: (303)-497-1833

Fax: (303)-497-1291

Email: chifan at ucar.edu

Contact Address:

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DSS

P.O. Box 3000

City: Boulder

Province or State: CO

Postal Code: 80307

Country: U.S.A.

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2007-11-08

Last DIF Revision Date: 2010-09-22

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