NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Monthly Means and Other Derived Variables
Data set identifier: NCEP/NCAR ReanalysisOne-line description: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data:Derived Products
Detailed description:
The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis project is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1958 to the present. A subset of this data has been processed to create monthly means of the original data, and in some cases, derived variables or other statistics. Information about the 4 times and daily data is available, as well.
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Current list of variables in the derived reanalysis dataset
See /Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/directory
Variable directory
Air temperature pressure
Air Temperature surface
Air temperature tropopause
Air Temperature at 2 meters surface
Clear sky downward longwave flux surface_gauss
Clear sky downward solar flux surface_gauss
Clear sky upward longwave flux other_gauss
Clear sky upward solar flux other_gauss
Cloud forcing net longwave flux surface_gauss
Divergence spectral
Downward solar radiation flux surface_gauss
Downward solar radiation flux other_gauss
Geopotential height pressure
Ground heat flux surface_gauss
Land-sea mask (time invariant) surface_gauss
Latent heat net flux surface_gauss
Meridional component of momentum flux surface_gauss
Meridional gravity wave stress surface_gauss
Meridional Heat Flux pressure
Momentum Flux pressure
Near IR beam downward solar flux surface_gauss
Net longwave radiation surface_gauss
Net shortwave radiation surface_gauss
Omega (vertical velocity) pressure
Potential evaporation rate surface
Potential Temperature pressure
Potential Vorticity other_gauss
Precipitable water surface
Precipitation rate surface_gauss
Pressure surface
Pressure tropopause
Pressure at high cloud bottom other_gauss
Pressure at high cloud top other_gauss
Pressure at low cloud bottom other_gauss
Pressure at low cloud top other_gauss
Pressure at middle cloud bottom other_gauss
Pressure at middle cloud top other_gauss
Relative humidity pressure
Relative humidity surface
Sea level pressure surface
Sensible heat net flux surface_gauss
Skin Temperature/SST surface
Specific humidity pressure
Specific humidity at 2 meters surface
Static Stability pressure
Streamfunction spectral
Thickness surface
U-wind pressure
U-wind surface
U-wind at 10 m surface_flux
Upward longwave radiation flux other_gauss
Upward longwave radiation flux surface_gauss
Upward solar radiation flux other_gauss
UU pressure
V-wind pressure
V-wind surface
V-wind at 10 m surface
Velocity Potential spectral
Vertical Heat flux pressure
Volumetric soil moisture (0-10cm) surface
Volumetric soil moisture (10-200cm) surface
Vorticity spectral
VV pressure
Water runoff surface
Wind Speed surface
Zonal component of momentum flux surface_gauss
Zonal gravity wave stress surface_gauss
Zonal Heat Flux pressure