The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Project

at the NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center

This page points you to information on the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis project and the implementation of a netCDF-based, Internet-accessible, data service at NOAA CDC for this set of data products.

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• The 6-hourly and daily data currently available on-line.
• The monthly and other derived data currently available on-line.
• Please read the problem list.

• Status
  • Reanalysis problems list (Oct 26, 2004)
• Inventory/specifications
  • Description of data on-line at CDC (Aug 6, 2003)
  • Inventory of the original GRIB files (Oct 8, 1998)
• Tips for reading the data files.
• Electronic Atlas of derived NCEP Reanalysis products

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Links to other NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis sites:

• NCEP
  • NCEP Environmental Modeling Center Home Page
  • The NCEP Reanalysis Page
  • Reanalysis Model Parameters
  • The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society article (March 1996) describing the project.
  • Pentad-means of some important NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis variables provide by JIASO at the University of Washington.
• NCAR
  • The NCAR Reanalysis Page
  • The Climate Analysis Section (CAS) at NCAR offers a data catalog which has some NCAR/NCEP Reanalysis products created by CAS.

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Links to Other Reanalysis Projects

• The ECMWF Reanalysis
• Data Assimilation Office Reanalysis Experiments

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For more information, contact:

Data Management Personnel
Climate Diagnostics Center
NOAA/OAR/CDC (R/CDC1)
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80303
cdcdata@noaa.gov

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NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
Document maintained by CDC Data Management Group (cdcdata@noaa.gov)
Updated: May 30, 2003 13:32:14 MDT
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cdc/reanalysis/index.html