** 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.

 

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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 Society87, 343–360, doi:10.1175/BAMS-87-3-343

More info from NCEP:

 

NARR_info.txt

 

 

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