gov.noaa.ncdc:C00280 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown raster digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov CAC Tropical Strip Winds and Outgoing Longwave Radiation is historical digital data set DSI-6145, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). This historical data set is comprised of monthly means of u and v components of the winds at 1000, 850, 700, 500, 300, and 200 mb levels, and the outgoing longwave radiation for each month for which they are available from March 1968 through February 1988. The winds are derived from the National Meteorological Center's Final Analysis software. NMC is now the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). The outgoing longwave radiation data are derived from satellite advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) window channel radiances. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00280 AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer RADIOSONDES RAWINSONDES BALLOONS NOAA POES > NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites RADIOSONDES POES > Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce 19680301 19880229 Ground Condition Complete As Needed -180.0 180.0 48.1 -48.1 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS GCMD Location Valids MID-LATITUDE EQUATORIAL GCMD Location Valids TROPOSPHERE STRATOSPHERE POES > Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites NOAA POES Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer AVHRR BALLOONS RAWINSONDES RADIOSONDES RADIOSONDES 5 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. Unknown Unknown The first 4 variables constitute the header. Their values are: Variable Values Descriptions IYEAR 68-88 year of data - 1900 IMONTH 1-12 month of data (1 Jan, 12 Dec) ITYPE 1-3 Data type 1-u component 2-v component 3-OLR ILEVEL 1000-200,0 level of the data (mb), O is OLR If all header values are zero, the data array is empty. No 850 mb winds are available prior to December 1974, no 1000 mb winds prior to December 1975, and no OLR before June 1974. No winds are available for October and November 1972, and no OLR data from March - December 1978. Data is a 72x23 point array of data (FORTRAN definition: REAL*4 DATA (72,23)) with 5o grid spacing in longitude and variable from 5o, to 3.5o in latitude. Longitudes begin at 0o (Greenwich)) and increase toward the east, so that point 2 of each row is 5oE, 3 is 10oE and so on. The latitudes begin at 48.1oS and increase northward. Row 12 is the equator and row 23 is 48.1oN. The latitudes are 48.1o, 44.6o, 41.0o, 37.1o, 33.0o, 28.7o, 24.2o, 19.6o, 14.8o, 10o, 5o N and S and the Equator. The wind components are in ms-1 while the OLR is in Wm-2. The winds are derived from the NMC Final Analysis. A brief description of the different analyses used through February 1979, along with further references, is found in Arkin (Mon. Wea. Rev., 1982). One major change not described there is the switch to a spectral model and the use of non-linear normal mode initialization. Some further details may be found in Kistler and Parrish (Mon. Wea. Rev., 1982). The OLR data are derived from advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) window channel radiances. A description of the data processing may be found in Gruber and Winston (Bulletin of the AMS, 1978.) The tape containing the data was created on an IBM 360/195 under OS/MVT. The tape is 1600 bpi and unlabeled. The appropriate JCL is: //FT01F001 DD UNIT=TAPE9, DISP=(OLD,PASS), // LABEL=(#,NL), VOL=SER=TAPENM, // DCB=(RECFM=F,LRECL=9945,BLKSIZE=9945) where # is the number of the file containing the data one wishes and TAPENM is the number of the tape. The tape should be usable on any computer which can read 9-track 1600 bpi tapes. None National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Customer Service Mailing and physical

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