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WGNE Set 4a - Line plots of DJF, JJA and ANN zonal means

	Legates & Willmott 1920-80
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
TREFHT	2-meter air temperature	plot	plot	plot
PRECT	total precipitation rate	plot	plot	plot
	NCEP Reanalysis 1979-98
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
TS	surface temperature	plot	plot	plot
PREH2O	precipitable water	plot	plot	plot
SWCF *	SW cloud forcing	plot	plot	plot
LWCF *	LW cloud forcing	plot	plot	plot
FLUT *	upward LW flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
FSNTOA *	net solar flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
FSNTOAC *	net clearsky solar flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
	ECMWF Reanalysis 1979-93
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PREH2O	precipitable water	plot	plot	plot
	ECMWF Reanalysis 1985-88
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
FLDS *	LW downwelling surface flux	plot	plot	plot
FSDS *	SW downwelling surface flux	plot	plot	plot
	NVAP 1988-1997
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PREH2O	precipitable water	plot	plot	plot
TGCLDLWP	Cloud liquid water (ocean only)	plot	plot	plot
	GPCP 1979-1999
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PRECT	total precipitation rate	plot	plot	plot
	CMAP (Xie-Arkin) 1979-98
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PRECT	total precipitation rate	plot	plot	plot
	SSM/I (Wentz) 1987-2000
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PRECT	total precipitation rate (ocean only)	plot	plot	plot
PREH2O	precipitable water (ocean only)	plot	plot	plot
TGCLDLWP	cloud liquid water (ocean only)	plot	plot	plot
	TRMM (3B-43) 1998-Mar2001
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
PRECT	total precipitation rate	plot	plot	plot
	ERBE Feb1985-Apr1989
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
SWCF	SW cloud forcing	plot	plot	plot
LWCF	LW cloud forcing	plot	plot	plot
FLUT *	upward LW flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
FLUTC *	upward clearsky LW flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
FSNTOA *	net solar flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
FSNTOAC *	net clearsky solar flux at TOA	plot	plot	plot
	ISCCP Jul1983-Jun1994
Variable	Description	DJF	JJA	ANN *
CLDTOT	total cloud amount	plot	plot	plot