Outline of CAS Data Sets

• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forcasting (ECMWF):
  • ECMWF 40-Year Reanalysis (ERA-40)

  • ECMWF 15-Year Reanalysis (ERA-15)
    • Daily Model level data
    • Daily Pressure level data
    • Mass, Moisture, and Energy Budget Products for ECMWF 15-Year Reanalysis (ERA-15)

  • Moisture Budget Products, Derived - Monthly

  • WCRP I Advanced Operational Analyses (TOGA/WCRP Uninitialized Data from T106 Harmonics)
    • 4 Times Daily Data
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • WCRP II Basic Consolidated Dataset (TOGA/WCRP Uninitialized Data from 2.5 degree grid)
    • Upper Air Data
      • 2 Times Daily Data
      • Monthly Means
      • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)
      • Time Filtered Means
    • Surface Data
      • 2 Times Daily Data
      • Monthly Means

  • Wind Stress, Derived
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • It is highly recommended that users and prospective users of our Mass, Moisture and Energy Budget Products for NCEP Reanalysis see our recomputed and updated products at Vertically Integrated Mass, Moisture, Heat, and Energy Budget Products Derived from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, March 2003. Extensive background concerning the details of the derivation of these products can also be found on this new web page.

  • NCEP and ECMWF Oceanic and Atmospheric Transport Products

• National Centers for Environmental Prediction (formerly National Meteorological Center [NMC]):
  • NCEP/NCAR Reanalyses:
    • Sigma Level Data
      • 4 Times Daily Data
      • Monthly Means and Tendencies
      • Monthly Means by Time of Day
    • Pressure Level Data
      • 4 Times Daily Data
      • Pressure Level Monthly Means (NCEP derived)
      • Pressure Level Long-Term Means (NCEP derived)

  • NMC Operational Analyses
    • 2 Times Daily Data
    • Monthly Means

  • Moisture Budget Products Derived from NMC Data
  • NCEP Mass, Moisture, and Energy Budget Products, Derived - Monthly
  • It is highly recommended that users and prospective users of our Mass, Moisture and Energy Budget Products for NCEP Reanalysis see our recomputed and updated products at Vertically Integrated Mass, Moisture, Heat, and Energy Budget Products Derived from the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, March 2003. Extensive background concerning the details of the derivation of these products can also be found on this new web page.
  • NCEP and ECMWF Oceanic and Atmospheric Transport Products

• Satellite Data:
  • Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
    • Monthly Means
    • Modified Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • Clouds and the Earth's Radiation Energy System(CERES)
    • Monthly Means

  • International Satellite Cloud Climatology (ISCCP)
    • Stage C2 data
      • Monthly Means
      • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

    • Stage D2 data
      • Monthly Means
      • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

    • Surface Flux data from ISCCP
  • Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU)
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • Nimbus-7 Cloud Matrix (CMATRIX)
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget (ERB)
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • NOAA Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR)
    • Monthly Means
    • Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

  • Satellite Equatorial Crossing Times (ECT)-Corrected OLR Datasets

  • Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I)
    • Monthly Mean Water Vapor Version 5 (RSS)
    • Monthly Mean Precipitable Water (Wentz)
    • Monthly Mean Precipitable Water (Greenwald and Stevens)

  • NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP) Daily Precipitable Water

  • Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Precipitation

  • Xie-Arkin Monthly Precipitation (CMAP)

• Surface Data:
  • Dai and Trenberth Global River Flow and Continental Discharge Data

  • Precipitation:
    • Global Monthly Precipitation over Land: 50+ yrs
    • Xie-Arkin Monthly (CMAP)
    • Jaeger Climatology
    • Legates Climatology
    • Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) Climatologies
    • Shea Climatology
    • Hulme Climate Research Unit (CRU)
    • NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP) Daily Precipitable Water
    • Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Precipitation
    • NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Precipitation

  • Sea Surface Temperature:
    • Climate Analysis Center - Optimal Interpolation - Monthly
    • Climate Analysis Center - Reconstructed - Monthly
    • Climate Diagnostic Center - Reconstructed & Optimal Interpolation - Monthly
    • Reynold's Blended Analyses - Monthly
    • Shea, Trenberth, and Reynolds Climatology

  • Surface Temperature:
    • Crutcher, Taljaard et al. Climatology
    • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (Oort) Climatology
    • Legates Climatology
    • Shea Climatology
    • CRU Temperature Anomalies

  • Shea Climatology Atlas Data

• Climate Indices:
  • North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Index from Hurrell (1995): Science 269:676-679

  • North Pacific (NP) Index from Trenberth and Hurrell (1994): Climate Dynamics 9:303-319

  • Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) from Trenberth (1984): Monthly Weather Review 112:326-332

  • Niño Regions 3 and 3.4 SST Indices from Trenberth, K. E. (1997) The Definition of El Niño. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 2771-2777. Figures and indices (SST anomalies) are current through December 1999.

  • TNI (Trans-Niño Index) and N3.4 (Niño 3.4 Index) from Trenberth, K. E., and David P. Stepaniak (2001) Indices of El Niño evolution. Journal of Climate., 14, 1697-1701.

  • Palmer Drought Severity Indices from Dai, A., K.E. Trenberth, and T. Karl (1998) Global variations in droughts and wet spells: 1900-1995. Geophysical Research Letters, 25 , 3367-3370.

  • Darwin SOI and GISST Anomalies spanning the period 1870 to 1998. Presented by Kevin E. Trenberth at January 1999 AMS meeting in Dallas, Texas.

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