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weasd.mon.mean.nc

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File:	weasd.mon.mean.nc 123.76 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:	snw

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:	2019-03-19T22:59:26Z

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_snow_amount (kg/m^2) weasd

THREDDS Variable

time_bnds () time_bnds

weasd (kg/m^2) weasd

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