Satellite Equatorial Crossing Times (ECT)-Corrected OLR Datasets
Waliser and Zhou Satellite ECT-Corrected Monthly Tropical OLR Datasets
Lucas and Waliser Satellite ECT-Corrected Daily, and Monthly Global OLR Datasets
SOURCE: Data Support Section Dataset ds684.0, and Data Support Section Dataset ds684.1 FORMAT: netCDF GRID: 2.5 x 2.5 degrees Global 73 lat x 144 lon Also available: +/- 30 degrees lat x 144 lon (tropics/subtropics) LEVELS: Single Level FIELDS: Description Name Units ---------------------------------------------------------------- Outgoing longwave radiation OLR W /m^2 TIMES: One mean per month, or per day. Current holdings: The following files are available on the MSS: /CA/RAD/OLR/olr.mean.anncy.74-96.nc OLR Mean Annual Cycle 1974-1996 (tropics/subtropics) /CA/RAD/OLR/olr.corr.anom.74-96.nc OLR monthly anomalies 1974-1996 (tropics/subtropics) /CA/RAD/OLR/olr.monthly.74-99.nc OLR monthly means 1974-1999 (global) /CA/RAD/OLR/olr.daily.74-99.nc OLR daily means 1974-1999 (global) /CA/RAD/OLR/olr.monthly.anom.75-99.nc OLR montly anomalies 1995-1999 (global)Reference: Waliser, D.E. and W. Zhou, 1997: Removing Satellite Equatorial Crossing Time Biases from the OLR and HRC Data Sets, J. Climate, 10, 2125-2146.
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