ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters

Description

This data set for the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection provides meteorology data with fixed, monthly, monthly-6-hourly, 6-hourly, and 3-hourly temporal resolutions. The data were derived from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) near-surface meteorology data set, 40-year re-analysis, or ERA-40 (Simmons and Gibson, 2000), which covers the years 1957 to 2001. The data were processed onto the ISLSCP II Earth grid with a spatial resolution of 1-degree in both latitude and longitude, and span the common ISLSCP II period from 1986 to 1995.The ECMWF forecast system is called the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) and was developed in co-operation with Meteo-France. For ERA40 it is used with 60 levels from the top of the model at 10 Pa to the lowest level at about 10 m above the surface. There are 46 compressed (.tar.gz) data files with this data set. Each uncompressed file contains space-delimited text (.asc) data files.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.3334%2FORNLDAAC%2F1222
21 This link allows direct data access via Earthdata login https://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/ecmwf_met_1deg/
21 ORNL DAAC Data Set Documentation https://daac.ornl.gov/ISLSCP_II/guides/ecmwf_met_1deg.html
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/ecmwf_met_1deg/comp/ecmwf_met_1deg.pdf
34 Browse Image https://daac.ornl.gov/graphics/browse/project/square/islscp_logo_square.png
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/ecmwf_met_1deg/comp/1_ecmwf_met_doc.pdf
21 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/ecmwf_met_1deg/comp/0_ecmwf_met_readme.txt
33 Data Set Documentation https://data.ornldaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/public/islscp_ii/near-surface_met/ecmwf_met_1deg/comp/ecmwf_data_files.pdf
21 Data set Landing Page DOI URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222

Tags

  • atmospheric-radiation
  • precipitation
  • snow-ice
  • soils
  • land-surface
  • atmosphere
  • cryosphere
  • atmospheric-temperature
  • surface-radiative-properties
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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