MSU Long-Term Means

Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU) Long-Term Means

A climatology for each month has been established based on the 10-year period of 1982-1991. A limited number of retrievals during November 1979 and March, April, and August 1981 affected the data and are the reason for the 10-year mean. Monthly anomalies have been formed by subtracting the 10-year mean from the monthly brightness temperatures. The missing data appear to have had a small impact on tropical and summer hemisphere anomalies, but caution should be used when examining the winter hemisphere anomalies during the months of missing retrievals.

SOURCE: MSU Monthly Means

FORMAT: netCDF

GRID: Global - T42 Gaussian (128 x 64) and 2.5 degree (144 x 72)

LEVELS: Single Level

FIELDS: Description     	                Name     Units   
     ---------------------------------------------------------
     Temperatures:
	Channel 2 Temperature                   CH2T      K  
	Channel 2R Temperature                  CH2R      K
	Channel 4 Temperature                   CH4T      K  

TIMES:  Average of a given month over several years.

MSS Directory: /CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/     (T42 grid)
	       /CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/   (2.5 degree grid)

Filename: MMMy1y2T.nc  where MMM=month, y1=starting year, y2=ending year
	One mean per file.
        e.g. JAN7994T.nc for mean of Januaries 1979-1994

Current holdings: 
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/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/JAN7994T.nc  
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/FEB7994T.nc  
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/MAR7994T.nc  
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/APR7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/MAY7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/JUN7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/JUL7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/AUG7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/SEP7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/OCT7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/NOV7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/DEC7994T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/T42/SAVTAV/T42_JAN79MAR94_CLIMATOLOGY.nc

/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/JAN7993T.nc 
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/FEB7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/MAR7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/APR7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/MAY7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/JUN7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/JUL7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/AUG7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/SEP7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/OCT7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/NOV7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/DEC7993T.nc
/CTSAT/MSU/2.5DG/SAVTAV/2.5DG_JAN79DEC93_CLIMATOLOGY.nc

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

Monthly Means

Comments on Data

References

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