ECMWF WCRP II Long-Term Means

SOURCE: Data Support Section Dataset ds111.2

FORMAT: TIME AVERAGED SAVE TAPE (SAVTAV), and netCDF

GRID:   Global - T42 Gaussian (128 x 64)

LEVELS: (Pressure)
	1000,850,700,500,400,300,250,200,150,100,70,50,30,10

FIELDS: Description                     Name    Units   Levels
        ---------------------------------------------------------
	Zonal Wind Component		U	m/s	all 
	Meridional Wind Component	V	m/s	all
	Vertical Pressure Velocity	OMEGA	Pa/s	all
	Geopotential Height		ZA	m	all
	Temperature			T	K	all
	Relative Humidity		RH	percent	all
	Specific Humidity		Q	kg/kg	all
	Surface Pressure		PS	Pa	surface
	Surface Geopotential		PHIS	m^2/s^2	surface
	Orography (surface type flag)	ORO	0=ocean	surface
						1=land
						2=sea ice

  Plus the following covariances:
        UUP,VVP,WWP,ZZP,TTP,RHP,QQP,PSP,
        UVP,UWP,VWP,UTP,VTP,UQP,VQP,WQP,WTP,UZP,VZP,WZP

TIMES:  Average of a given month over several years.

MSS Directory: /TRENBERT/CTGAN/U/TAV/

Filename: ET42mmMy1y2  where mm=month, y1=starting year, y2=ending year
	One mean per volume.
        e.g. ET4201M8789 for January 1987-89 in SAVTAV,
        or ET4201M8597.nc for January 1985-1997 in netCDF.

Current holdings: for SAVTAV:
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MONTH     FILE NAME      YEARS INCLUDED
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Jan      ET4201M8789       1987-1989  
Feb      ET4202M8789       1987-1989  
Mar      ET4203M8789       1987-1989  
Apr      ET4204M8789       1987-1989
May      ET4205M8788       1987-1988
Jun      ET4206M8688       1986-1988
Jul      ET4207M8688       1986-1988
Aug      ET4208M8688       1986-1988
Sep      ET4209M8688       1986-1988
Oct      ET4210M8688       1986-1988
Nov      ET4211M8688       1986-1988
Dec      ET4212M8688       1986-1988

for netCDF:
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MONTH     FILE NAME      YEARS INCLUDED
---------------------------------------
Jan      ET4201M8597.nc       1985-1997 
Feb      ET4202M8597.nc       1985-1997 
Mar      ET4203M8597.nc       1985-1997 
Apr      ET4204M8597.nc       1985-1997
May      ET4205M8597.nc       1985-1997
Jun      ET4206M8597.nc       1985-1997
Jul      ET4207M8597.nc       1985-1997
Aug      ET4208M8597.nc       1985-1997
Sep      ET4209M8597.nc       1985-1997
Oct      ET4210M8597.nc       1985-1997
Nov      ET4211M8597.nc       1985-1997
Dec      ET4212M8597.nc       1985-1997

and 12months in T42_JAN85DEC97_CLIMATOLOGY.nc for years 1985-1997.

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

• Daily Data
• Monthly Means
• Time Filtered Means

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