NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Monthly Means and Other Derived Variables We have transitioned the data files from netCDF3 to netCDF4-classic format on Monday Oct 20th, 2014. Brief Description: * NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Monthly Means and Other Derived Variables.. Temporal Coverage: * Daily and Monthly Values for 1948/01 - present. * Long term monthly means, derived from data for years 1981 - 2010. Spatial Coverage: * Global [air.latest.seas.globe.png] Levels: * 17 Pressure levels: 5 sigma levels Update Schedule: * Monthly We have separated the data documentation into seven sections: * Pressure level * Surface * Surface Fluxes * Other Fluxes * Tropopause * Spectral Coefficients Usage Restrictions: * None Detailed Description: * The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 project is using a state-of-the-art analysis/forecast system to perform data assimilation using past data from 1948 to the present. A large subset of this data is available from PSL in its original 4 times daily format and as daily averages. However, the data from 1948-1957 is a little different, in the regular (non-Gaussian) gridded data. That data was done at 8 times daily in the model, because the inputs available in that era were available at 3Z, 9Z, 15Z, and 21Z, whereas the 4x daily data has been available at 0Z, 6Z, 12Z, and 18Z. These latter times were forecasted and the combined result for this early era is 8x daily. The local ingestion process took only the 0Z, 6Z, 12Z, and 18Z forecasted values, and thus only those were used to make the daily time series and monthly means here. Caveats: * None Related File Naming & Structure Information: File Names: * var.time.stat.nc (In directory: /Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.derived/) Dataset Format and Size: * PSL standard NetCDF (packed). Missing Data: * Missing data is flagged with a value of -9.96921e+36f. Citation: For dataset source, please cite:Kalnay et al.,The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437-470, 1996. * Please note: If you acquire NCEP Reanalysis Derived data products from PSL, we ask that you acknowledge us in your use of the data. This may be done by including text such as NCEP Reanalysis Derived data provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://psl.noaa.gov/ in any documents or publications using these data. We would also appreciate receiving a copy of the relevant publications. This will help PSL to justify keeping the NCEP Reanalysis Derived data set freely available online in the future. Thank you! References: * March, 1996 BAMS Original Source: * NOAA National Center for Environmental Prediction Contact: * Physical Sciences Laboratory: Data Management NOAA/ESRL/PSL 325 Broadway Boulder, CO 80305-3328 psl.data@noaa.gov U.S. Department of Commerce | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratories | Physical Sciences Laboratory http://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.derived. html