Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), for 1979 to 2011

Description

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) was initially completed for the 31-year period from 1979 to 2009, in January 2010. The CFSR was designed and executed as a global, high resolution, coupled atmosphere-ocean-land surface-sea ice system to provide the best estimate of the state of these coupled domains over this 31-year period. The CFSR has also been extended as an operational, real time product into the future. New features of the CFSR include: (1) coupling of atmosphere and ocean during the generation of the 6 hour guess field; (2) an interactive sea-ice model; and (3) assimilation of satellite radiances by the Grid-point Statistical Interpolation (GSI) scheme over the entire period. The CFSR global atmosphere resolution is approximately 38 km (T382) with 64 levels extending from the surface to 0.26 hPa. The global ocean's latitudinal spacing is 0.25 deg at the equator, extending to a global 0.5 deg beyond the tropics, with 40 levels to a depth of 4737m. The global land surface model has four4 soil levels and the global sea ice model has 3 layers. The CFSR atmospheric model has observed variations in carbon dioxide (CO2) over the 1979-2009 period, together with changes in aerosols and other trace gases and solar variations. Most available in-situ and satellite observation data were included in the CFSR. Satellite-based radiance observations were bias corrected with spin-up runs at full resolution, taking into account variable CO2 concentrations. This procedure enabled smooth transitions of the observation record due to evolutionary changes in satellite observing systems. The CFSR atmospheric, oceanic and land surface output products are available at an hourly time resolution and at a 0.5 deg x 0.5 deg latitude and longitude resolution. In total, there are 10 data products available from the National Climatic Data Center that make up the CFS Reanalysis collection: MON - Monthly Means; TIME - Parameter Timeseries; PGB - 3-D Pressure Level Data; FLX - Surface and Radiative Fluxes; OCN - 3-D Ocean Data; IPV - 3-D Isentropic Level Data; DIAB - 3-D Diabatic Heating Data; GRBLOW - Low-Resolution Data; HIC - High-Res Initial Conditions; LIC - Low-Res Initial Conditions. All data are in GRIB-2 format, except for the initial condition data which are in native binary formats. Total CFSR data volume is approximately 200 TB.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
0 ERDDAP Data Server for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/erddap/search/index.html?page=1&itemsPerPage=1000&searchFor=CFSR
0 NCEI home page with information, data access and contact information. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov
21 THREDDS Data Server (TDS) for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/model/cfs.html
0 The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis article https://doi.org/10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1
0 Landing page for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/metadata/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/gov.noaa.ncdc:C00765/html
0 Description of the data and related resources. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/weather-climate-models/climate-forecast-system
0 Direct download for the dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/climate-forecast-system/access/reanalysis/
21 Explore and access files in the S3 bucket. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/oa/prod-cfs-reanalysis/index.html
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/gcmd/global-change-master-directory-gcmd-keywords

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  • humidity
  • salinity
  • vertical location
  • terrestrial hydrosphere
  • ice depth/thickness
  • precipitation
  • water vapor profiles
  • sea surface
  • incoming solar radiation
  • land surface
  • altitude
  • soils
  • national climatic data center
  • atmospheric temperature
  • nesdis
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  • upwelling/downwelling
  • land surface temperature
  • wind dynamics
  • boundary layer temperature
  • oceans
  • surface winds
  • sea surface height
  • heat flux
  • snow water equivalent
  • sea level pressure
  • atmospheric water vapor
  • atmosphere
  • noaa
  • air temperature
  • outgoing longwave radiation
  • total precipitable water
  • ocean temperature
  • longwave radiation
  • global
  • troposphere
  • convergence/divergence
  • ocean winds
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • earth science
  • geographic region
  • radiative flux
  • sea ice
  • surface pressure
  • ocean
  • potential temperature
  • streamfunctions
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei
  • shortwave radiation
  • boundary layer winds
  • snow/ice
  • atmospheric radiation
  • sea ice concentration
  • wind profiles
  • vertical wind velocity/speed
  • upper level winds
  • pressure thickness
  • atmospheric pressure
  • maximum/minimum temperature
  • doc/noaa/nesdis/ncdc
  • sea surface topography
  • boundary layer
  • soil temperature
  • atmospheric winds
  • salinity/density
  • vorticity
  • ocean circulation
  • geopotential height
  • precipitation rate
  • soil moisture/water content
  • ocean currents
  • surface temperature
  • upper air temperature
  • thermocline
  • water vapor indicators
  • national centers for environmental information
  • surface thermal properties
  • stratosphere

Topics

  • Climate

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  • Arctic
  • Arctic Weather and Extreme Events