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List of Available Atmospheric (Surface) Data Sets (Please click on the data set name for detailed information.) |
| Name | Variable(s) | Period of Record | Coverage | Comments |
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| CMAP | Precipitation | 1979-Current | Ocean Monthly, Pentad (5-day) 2.5o x 2.5o |
Precipitation data set based on gauge observations, satellite estimates, and numerical model outputs. |
| I-COADS |
Cloudiness Sea level pressure Sea surface temperature Specific humidity Surface wind Air temperature Other |
1784-1997 | Ocean Monthly 2o x 2o (1784-1997) 1o x 1o (1960-1997) |
Gridded archive of surface marine weather observations. No processing beyond quality control. |
| CRU TS 2.0 | Air temperature Cloudiness Daily temperature range Precipitation Vapor pressure |
1901-2000 | Land Monthly 0.5o x 0.5o |
A comprehensive set of high-resolution grids of monthly climate for the globe. |
| Dai | Precipitation | 1851-1996 | Land Monthly 2.5o x 2.5o |
Gridded archive of precipitation based on land stations only. Empirical corrections applied for changes in instrumentation and station location. |
| HadISST | Sea surface temperature Sea ice concentration |
1870-Current | Ocean Monthly 1o x 1o |
SST/Sea ice concentration data sets containing in situ sea surface observations and satellite derived estimates at the sea surface. |
| Hulme (CRU) | Precipitation | 1900-1998 | Land Monthly 2.5o x 3.75o 5o x 5o |
Gridded archive of precipitation timeseries for a large number of stations. |
| Jones (CRU) Air Temperature | Air temperature | 1856-Current | Land and Ocean Monthly 5o x 5o |
Land-surface meteorological data and fixed-position weather ship data as well as in situ measurements from ships and buoys make up this gridded data set. |
| Jones (CRU) SLP | Sea level pressure | 1873-Current | Land and Ocean Monthly Northern Hemisphere 5o x 10o lat/lon |
Individual station pressure data used to form reconstruction of monthly mean sea level grid-point pressure using multivariate regressions technique. |
| Kaplan (SLP) | Sea level pressure | 4/1854-12/1992 | Ocean Monthly 4o x 4o |
Reduced space optimal interpolation of COADS SLP anomaly. |
| Kaplan (SST) | Sea surface temperature | 1856-1991 | Ocean Monthly 5o x 5o |
Reduced space optimal smoother performed on MOHSST5 observational data set of the GOSTA atlas. |
| Lucas and Waliser Satellite ECT-Corrected OLR | Outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) | 6/1974-12/1999 | Land and Ocean Daily/Pentad/Monthly 2.5o x 2.5o |
OLR dataset where the bias from varying satellite equatorial crossing times (ECT's) has been estimated and then removed. |
| NCAR Sea Level Pressure | Sea level pressure | 1/1899-Current | Land and Ocean Daily / Monthly 5o x 5o Northern Hemisphere |
Gridded analysis of SLP based on land station reports. Quality controlled raw data plus empirical corrections for changes in instrumentation and station location. |
| NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis |
Air temperature Cloudiness Geopotential heights Humidity Omega Outgoing longwave radiation Sea level pressure Sea surface temperature Winds Other |
1948-Current | Land and Ocean 4X daily/Daily/Monthly 2.5o x 2.5o/T42/T62 Pressure Levels Sigma Levels Theta Surfaces |
The goal of this joint NCEP/NCAR effort is to produce new atmospheric analyses using historical data (1948 onwards) and as well to produce analyses of the current atmospheric state (Climate Data Assimilation System, CDAS). |
| Reynolds Reconstructed SST | Sea surface temperature | 1950-1999 | Ocean Monthly 2o x 2o |
EOF methods are used to create these grids using marine surface data for 45S-69N with climatology fill in areas north and south of these limits. |
| Reynolds Optimum Interpolation (OI) SST | Sea surface temperature | 1981-Current | Ocean Monthly 1o x 1o |
This optimum interpolation (OI) sea surface temperature analysis uses in situ and satellite SST's plus SST's simulated by sea-ice cover. |
| Reynolds Optimum Interpolation Version 2 ( OI.v2) SST | Sea surface temperature | 1981-Current | Ocean Weekly/Monthly 1o x 1o |
Next generation version of the Reynolds OI SST Data set. Improvements in high latitude SST's have been made, as well as the reduction of residual satellite biases over areas with sparse data coverage. |
| Smith and Reynolds Extended Reconstructed SLP (ERSLP) | Sea level pressure | 1854-1997 | Land Monthly 2.0o x 2.0o |
The ERSLP was constructed using the most recently available I-COADS SLP data and improved statistical methods that allow stable reconstruction using sparse data. |
| Smith and Reynolds Extended Reconstructed SST (ERSST) | Sea surface temperature | 1854-Current | Ocean Monthly 2o x 2o |
The ERSST dataset was constructed using the I-COADS SST data and improved statistical methods that allow stable reconstruction using sparse data. Replaces the Reynolds Reconstructed SST dataset. |
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Updated: 10/30/03 |