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ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters

Project: ISLSCP Initiative II (ISLSCP II) The International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project

Data Set: ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters This data set for the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection provides meteorology data with fixed, monthly, monthly-6-hourly, 6-hourly, and 3-hourly temporal resolutions. The data were derived from the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) near-surface meteorology data set, 40-year re-analysis, or ERA-40 (Simmons and Gibson, 2000), which covers the years 1957 to 2001. The data were processed onto the ISLSCP II Earth grid with a spatial resolution of 1-degree in both latitude and longitude, and span the common ISLSCP II period from 1986 to 1995. The ECMWF forecast system is called the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) and was developed in co-operation with Meteo-France. For ERA40 it is used with 60 levels from the top of the model at 10 Pa to the lowest level at about 10 m above the surface. There are 46 compressed (.tar.gz) data files with this data set. Each uncompressed file contains space-delimited text (.asc) data files.

Detailed Documentation: Data Set Reference Document

Companion Files:

0_ecmwf_met_readme.txt
1_ecmwf_met_doc.pdf
ecmwf_data_files.pdf
ecmwf_met_1deg.pdf

DATA SET

http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222

This is the ECMWF ISLSCP II dataset from ERA-40, documented in Betts and Beljaars (2004) ; Betts et al. JGR 2006

Hall et al. JGR, 2006 (ISLSCP-II Overview)

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Full Citation

Beljaars, A.C.M, A.K. Betts, and E. Brown de Colstoun (2014). ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters. In Hall, Forrest G., G. Collatz, B. Meeson, S. Los, E. Brown de Colstoun, and D. Landis (eds.). ISLSCP Initiative II Collection. Data set. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov/] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222