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GEWEX NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP)

Entry ID: NCAR_DS722.0

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Summary

Abstract: A five year (1988-1992) total and layered global water vapor data set on 1x1
degree grids. This set is derived from radiosonde observations, TOVS
and SSMI data. Precipitable water cotent (PWC), layered PWC and
cloud liquid water path (LWP) are the main products with
supplemental products of each data source. The cloud LWP is over
global oceans only. Daily, monthly, yearly and 5-day averaged grids
are available.

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: GEWEX NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP)

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://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds722.0/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1988-01-01

Stop Date: 1992-12-31

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > PRECIPITABLE WATER

ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE

ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID WATER EQUIVALENT

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Project

GEWEX > Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Ancillary Keywords

Gridding Methods

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Data Center

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

Data Center URL: http://rda.ucar.edu/
Dataset ID: 722.0

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.