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prate.mon.mean.nc

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File:	prate.mon.mean.nc (restricted) 109.64 MB
Kind:	NOAA FACTS Climate Model File
Created:	2015-06-15 19:00:47 UTC
Date:	1851-01-01 00:00:00 UTC - 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC
Model:	20thC_ReanV2c
Experiment:	reanalysis
Ensemble Member:	mean
Variable:	pr

THREDDS Property

Name:	Conventions
Value:	CF-1.2

Name:	assimilation_algorithm
Value:	Ensemble Kalman Filter

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:	comments
Value:	Data is from NOAA-CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis version 2c (4x/day). It consists of most variables interpolated to pressure surfaces from model (sigma) surfaces.

Name:	contact
Value:	esrl.psd.data@noaa.gov

Name:	creation_date
Value:	2014-06-13T18:30:07Z

Name:	forcing
Value:	CO2, Sl, Vl, SST, Oz (Oz is prognostic, SST is SODAsi.2c, Sl starts in 1944 repeating 11 year solar cycle prior, Vl is Sato et al. 1993)

Name:	forcing_note
Value:	Additional information on the external forcings uses in this reanalysis can be found at http://dx.doi.rog/10.1002/qj.776

Name:	history
Value:	created 2015/02 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/PSD1, Boulder, CO 80305)

Name:	name_of_model_used
Value:	ensda_v351

Name:	observations
Value:	International Surface Pressure Databank version 3.2.9

Name:	platform
Value:	Model

Name:	product
Value:	reanalysis

Name:	references
Value:	http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.20thC_ReanV2c.html

Name:	source
Value:	20CRv2c 2014, Ensemble Kalman Filter, ocean (specified): SODAsi.2c; atmosphere: NCEP GFS2008ex; sea ice (specified): COBE-SST2 sea ice; land: Noah; version 2

Name:	title
Value:	4x Daily NOAA-CIRES 20th Century Reanalysis V2c

Name:	version
Value:	2c

THREDDS Standard name

precipitation_flux (kg/m^2/s) prate

Variable

ID: prate (kg/m^2/s) Long name: prate

ID: time_bnds Long name: time_bnds

pr_wtr.eatm.mon.mean.nc

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