Daily ECMWF ERA-15 High Resolution Upper Air Analyses

SOURCE: Data Support Section Dataset ds115.4
T106 spherical harmonic representation, and Data Support Section Dataset ds115.6
N80 spherical harmonic representation.

FORMAT: netCDF 

GRID: Global -- T63 Gaussian (192 x 96)

LEVELS: 17 Pressure levels

FIELDS: Description                     Name   		 Units   Levels
        ---------------------------------------------------------
        Temperature 			T		K
	U-component of Wind 		U		ms-1
	V-component of Wind 		V		ms-1
	Specific Humidity		Q		kg/kg
	Geopotential Height		Z		m
	Vertical Pressure Velocity	OMEGA		Pa/s
	Surface Pressure		PS		Pa
	Surface Geopotential		PHIS		m2 s-2
                                                        
TIMES:  4 times daily: 00Z, 06Z, 12Z, 18Z.

MSS Directory: /CA/ECMWF/ERA15/DAILY/PRESS

Filenames:  T63YYYYMMDD.nc, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is
the 2-digit month and DD is the 2-digit day. 

 For example, T6319790101.nc would be the file containing the Jan 1, 1979 data.

Current holdings: 
	 1 January, 1979 - 31 December, 1993

Other Products related to this Dataset:

• ERA-15 Mass,Moisture, Energy Budget Products
• Daily ERA-15 Model level data

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