ECMWF WCRP II Time Filtered Means

SOURCE: Data Support Section Dataset ds111.2

FORMAT: TIME SERIES SAVE TAPE (SAVTSR) prior to 1987
	CCM2 History Tape starting Jan 87.

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 FEBRUARY 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
	Specific Humidity		Q	kg/kg	all
	Horizontal Wind Divergence	DIV	1/s	all
	Horizontal Wind Vorticity	VOR	1/s	all
	U-vel calculated from DIV	UD	m/s	all
	U-vel calculated from VOR	UZ	m/s	all
	V-vel calculated from DIV	VD	m/s	all
	V-vel calculated from VOR	VD	m/s	all
  Plus the following standard deviations:
	Standard deviation of U		SDU
	Standard deviation of V		SDV
	Standard deviation of OMEGA	SDW
	Standard deviation of ZA	SDZ
	Standard deviation of T		SDT
	Standard deviation of Q		SDQ
	Standard deviation of DIV	SDD
	Standard deviation of VOR	SDR
  Plus the following covariances:
	Covariance of U,V		UVP
	Covariance of U,OMEGA		UWP
	Covariance of V,OMEGA		VWP
	Covariance of U,T		UTP
	Covariance of V,T		VTP
	Covariance of U,Q		UQP
	Covariance of V,Q		VQP
	Covariance of U,VOR		URP
	Covariance of V,VOR		VRP
	Covariance of OMEGA,T		WTP
	Covariance of OMEGA,Q		WQP
	Covariance of UD,VOR		UDRP
	Covariance of VD,VOR		VDRP
	Covariance of UZ,VOR		UZRP
	Covariance of VZ,VOR		VZRP

TIMES:  One mean per month.

MSS Directory: /TRENBERT/CTGAN/U/TAVF/

Filename: ET42yymmF  where yy=year, mm=month
	One month per volume.
        e.g. ET428501F for January 1985.

Current holdings: January 1985 - November 1997

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

• Daily Data
• Monthly Means
• Climatologies (long term means)

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