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Obs/Reanalysis Comparison Datasets
NCEP reanalysis 1979-1998 (16 variables)
ECMWF reanalysis 1979-1993 (13 variables)
RAOBS vertical profiles (T,Q,H))
GPCP precip rate 1979-2002)
CMAP (Xie-Arkin) precip rate 1979-1998)
CMAP PREC/L land surface precip rate 1948-2001)
NVAP water vapor, cloud liquid water 1988-1999)
SSM/I (Wentz) precip rate, water vapor, cloud liquid water 1987-2000)
MODIS precipitable water, cloud liquid water)
SMMR & SSM/I sea ice concentration 1979-1999)
TRMM merged rain rate (3B-43) 1998-2003)
ERS 1/2 scatterometer surface stress 1992-2000)
ERBE fluxes, cloud forcings 1985-1989)
CERES (5 variables) 2000-2002)
IPCC/CRU surface air temperature 1961-1990)
HadISST sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration 1982-2001)
LEGATES surface temperature, precip rate 1920-1980)
WILLMOTT land surface temperature and precipitation 1950-1999)
ISCCP D1, D2 cloud cover (high,low,mid,total) 1983-2001)
ISCCP FD surface fluxes 1983-2000)
WARREN surface OBS cloud cover (low,total)
Download the observational datasets
ftp ftp.cgd.ucar.edu
login using "anonymous" and your email address
cd pub/stevens
binary
get diag.obs_data.tar.gz
Thanks to Mark Stevens
at NCAR for providing the observational datasets.
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