albedo.mon.mean.nc
File: albedo.mon.mean.nc    355.74 MB
Kind: NOAA FACTS Climate Model File
Start Date: 1836-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
End Date: 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC
Model:20CRv3
Experiment:reanalysis
Ensemble Member:mean
Variable:alb
THREDDS Property
Name: Conventions
Value: CF-1.2
Name: References
Value: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV3.html
Name: assimilation_algorithm
Value: Ensemble Kalman Filter with 4DIAU
Name: citation
Value: Compo,G.P. , J.S. Whitaker P.D. Sardeshmukh, N.Matsui, R.J. Allan, X. Yin, B.E. Gleason, R.S. Vose, G. Rutledge, P. Bessemoulin, S. Bronnimann, M. Brunet, R.I. Crouthamel, A.N. Grant, P.Y. Groisman, P.D. Jones, M. Kruk, A.C. Kruger, G.J. Marshal, M. Maugeri, H.Y. Mok, O. Nordli, T.F. Ross, R.M. Trio, X.L. Wang, S.D. Woodruff, and S.J. Worley, 2011: The Twentieth Century Reanalysis Project . Quarterly J. Roy. Meteorol. Soc./, 137, 1-28. DOI: 10.1002/qj.776.
Name: citation1
Value: Slivinski, L. C, G. P. Compo, J. S. Whitaker, P. D. Sardeshmukh, B. S. Giese, C. McColl, R. Allan, X. Yin, R. Vose, H. Titchner, J. Kennedy, L. J. Spencer, L. Ashcroft, S. Bronnimann, M. Brunet, D. Camuffo, R. Cornes, T. A. Cram, R. Crouthamel, F. Dominguez-Castro, J. E. Freeman, J. Gergis, E. Hawkins, P. D. Jones, S. Jourdain, A. Kaplan, H. Kubota, F. Le Blancq, T.-C. Lee, A. Lorrey, J. Luterbacher, M. Maugeri, C. J. Mock, G.W. K. Moore, R. Przybylak, C. Pudmenzky, C. Reason, V. C. Slonosky, C. Smith, B. Tinz, B. Trewin, M. A. Valente, X. L. Wang, C. Wilkinson, K. Wood, and P. Wyszynski (submitted): Towards a more reliable historical reanalysis: Improvements for version 3 of the Twentieth Century Reanalysis System. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Name: comments
Value: Data are from NOAA/CIRES/DOE 20th Century Reanalysis version 3 (8x/day). It consists of most variables interpolated to pressure surfaces from model hybrid (sigma/pressure) surfaces.
Name: contact
Value: esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov
Name: creation_date
Value: 2019-03-25T21:26:19Z
Name: creator_name
Value: NOAA/ESRL PSD
Name: dataset_title
Value: NOAA/CIRES/DOE 20th Century Reanalysis (V3)
Name: forcing
Value: CO2, Sl, Vl, SST, Oz (CO2 as in Saha et al (2010), Oz is prescribed from CMIP5, SST is SODAsi.3, Sl is Total Solar Irradiance (TSI) Reconstruction based on NRLTSI2, Vl defined as in Crowley & Unterman 2013)
Name: forcing_note
Value: Additional information on the external forcings uses in this reanalysis can be found in Slivinski et al. (2019) (citation1)
Name: history
Value: created 2019/03 by Hoop (chunked, deflated non-packed netCDF4-Classic) esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov
Name: institution
Value: NOAA ESRL Physical Sciences Division & CU/CIRES (325 Broadway R/PSD, Boulder, CO 80305)
Name: license
Value: These data are available free of charge under the PSD data policy
Name: name_of_model_used
Value: ensda_v451
Name: observations
Value: International Surface Pressure Databank version 4.7
Name: platform
Value: Model
Name: product
Value: reanalysis
Name: source
Value: 20CRv3si 2018, Ensemble Kalman Filter, ocean (specified): SODAsi.3; atmosphere: NCEP GFS v14.0.1; sea ice (specified): HadISST2.3 (years prior to 1850 use climatology of 1860-1891); land: Noah 4 layer version 2
Name: spatial_resolution
Value: 1.0 degree
Name: standard_name_vocabulary
Value: NetCDF Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Convention
Name: title
Value: Monthly NOAA/CIRES/DOE 20th Century Reanalysis V3
Name: version
Value: 3si
THREDDS Standard name
surface_albedo (%) albedo
Variable
albedo (%) albedo
time_bnds () time_bnds
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