NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis

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The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis data set is a continually updating gridded data set representing the state of the Earth's atmosphere, incorporating observations and global climate model output dating back to 1948.

[edit] Accessing the data

The data is available for free download from http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/data.ncep.reanalysis.html. It is distributed in Netcdf files, for which a number of tools and libraries exist.

[edit] Uses

  • Initializing a smaller scale atmospheric model
  • Climate assessment

[edit] External links


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