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[[File:NNGR_Nodes.png|rigth|thumb|400px|NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Data Nodes:<br> | [[File:NNGR_Nodes.png|rigth|thumb|400px|NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Data Nodes:<br> | ||
Left = Nodes Covering Western Europe. Right = Nodes Covering France.]]Data from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis project is currently available to users of WindPRO as part of the on-line services from the EMD server. A connection to the internet is thus required. Users may download updated data from the present moment (typically the preceding month) back until 1948. The sub-set of the NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Data that we hold at EMD is updated on a monthly to bi-monthly update cycle. | Left = Nodes Covering Western Europe. Right = Nodes Covering France.]]Data from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis project is currently available to users of WindPRO as part of the on-line services from the EMD server. A connection to the internet is thus required. Users may download updated data from the present moment (typically the preceding month) back until 1948. The sub-set of the NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Data that we hold at EMD is updated on a monthly to bi-monthly update cycle. | ||
== Data Description == | |||
The NCEP/NCAR model dataset is immense, containing a very wide range of descriptive atmospheric model data. The actual measured climate data sources used in the global reanalysis model are: | |||
*Upperair rawinsonde observations of temperature, horizontal wind, and specific humidity (i.e. weather balloons) | |||
*Operational Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) vertical temperature soundings from NOAA polar orbiters over ocean, with microwave retrievals excluded between 20°N and 20°S due to rain contamination | |||
*TOVS temperature soundings over land only above 100 hPa | |||
*Cloud-tracked winds from geostationary satellites | |||
*Aircraft observations of wind and temperature | |||
*Land surface reports of surface pressure | |||
*Oceanic reports of surface pressure, temperature, horizontal wind, and specific humidity | |||
These data are used as input into a frozen global assimilation system and processed by a spectral model in order to provide the model output of the variables in the grid. | |||
Revision as of 13:10, 26 May 2013
Left = Nodes Covering Western Europe. Right = Nodes Covering France.
Data from the NCEP/NCAR reanalysis project is currently available to users of WindPRO as part of the on-line services from the EMD server. A connection to the internet is thus required. Users may download updated data from the present moment (typically the preceding month) back until 1948. The sub-set of the NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis Data that we hold at EMD is updated on a monthly to bi-monthly update cycle.
Data Description
The NCEP/NCAR model dataset is immense, containing a very wide range of descriptive atmospheric model data. The actual measured climate data sources used in the global reanalysis model are:
- Upperair rawinsonde observations of temperature, horizontal wind, and specific humidity (i.e. weather balloons)
- Operational Television Infrared Observation Satellite (TIROS) Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) vertical temperature soundings from NOAA polar orbiters over ocean, with microwave retrievals excluded between 20°N and 20°S due to rain contamination
- TOVS temperature soundings over land only above 100 hPa
- Cloud-tracked winds from geostationary satellites
- Aircraft observations of wind and temperature
- Land surface reports of surface pressure
- Oceanic reports of surface pressure, temperature, horizontal wind, and specific humidity
These data are used as input into a frozen global assimilation system and processed by a spectral model in order to provide the model output of the variables in the grid.