ECMWF WCRP II Monthly 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,(925),850,700,500,400,300,250,200,150,100,70,50,30,10
	The 925mb level exists only for January 1992 and later.

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:  One mean per month.

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

Filename: For SAVTAV: ET42yymmM  where yy=year, mm=month
	One month per volume. e.g. ET428501M for January 1985.
        For netCDF: ET42yymmM.nc  where yy=year, mm=month
        One month per volume. e.g. ET428501M.nc for January 1985.

Current holdings: January 1985 - December 1997

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

• Daily Data
• Long-Term Means (Climatologies)
• Time Filtered Means

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