** NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) **
location: /esd/esd/data/atmospheric_data/gridded/regional/NARR
Here you find general information about the dataset, variable abbreviations, information about the download onto the ESD servers (source, which variables are downloaded and when) and the official documentation.
Dataset
Format : netCDF
Range : 01/01/1979 - 31/12/2013
Resolution : 349x277, ca. 0.3°(32km). (Native model grid is converted to a Northern Lambert Conformal Conic grid for archives.)
Domain : North America, grid corners are 12.2N; 133.5W, 54.5N; 152.9W, 57.3N; 49.4W, 14.3N; 65.1W
Variable abbreviations
General abbreviations:
mon - monthly
ltm - longterm means (1979-2000)
2D (monolevel) variables:
air.2m - air temperature (2m)
air.sfc - air temperature (surface)
apcp - accumulated total precipitation (surface)
lhtfl - latent heat flux (surface)
mslet - mean sea level (ETA model) pressure (mean sea level)
prevap - accumulated potential evaporation (surface)
prate - precipitation rate (surface)
prmsl - pressure at mean sea level (mean sea level)
uwnd.10m - u wind (10m)
vwnd.10m - v wind (10m)
3D (pressure level) variables:
air - air temperature
hgt - geopotential height
omega - omega wind
uwnd - u (zonal) wind
vwnd - v (meridional) wind
Meta
Source : ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/NARR/
Date : 22.04.2014-23.04.2014
Variables : mentioned above (more variables are available. more info: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.narr.html)
Official Documentation
Journal article:
Mesinger, F., G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, K. Mitchell, and Coauthors, 2006. North American Regional Reanalysis. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 87, 343–360, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-3-343
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