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Title:

The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project

Source:

NOAA's National Center for Environmental Prediction (NCEP)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

(This CD-ROM was freely distributed with the March 1996 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society)

Description:

The NCEP and NCAR are cooperating in a project (denoted "reanalysis") to produce a 40-year record of global analyses of atmospheric fields in support of needs of the research and climate monitoring communities. This effort involves the recovery of land surface, ship, rawinsonde, pibal, aircraft, satellite, and other data; quality controlling and assimilating these data with a data assimilation system that is kept unchanged over the reanalysis period 1957-1996.

This CD-ROM contains 13 years of selected observed, daily, monthly, and climatological data from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis. A complete set of this data is available from NCEP/NCAR.