NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, continuing from July 1999
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| DOI: 10.5065/D6M043C6
These NCEP FNL (Final) Operational Global Analysis data are on 1-degree by 1-degree grids prepared operationally every six hours. This product is from the Global Data Assimilation System (GDAS), which continuously collects observational data from the Global Telecommunications System (GTS), and other sources, for many analyses. The FNLs are made with the same model which NCEP uses in the Global Forecast System (GFS), but the FNLs are prepared about an hour or so after the GFS is initialized. The FNLs are delayed so that more observational data can be used. The GFS is run earlier in support of time critical forecast needs, and uses the FNL from the previous 6 hour cycle as part of its initialization.
The analyses are available on the surface, at 26 mandatory (and other pressure) levels from 1000 millibars to 10 millibars, in the surface boundary layer and at some sigma layers, the tropopause and a few others. Parameters include surface pressure, sea level pressure, geopotential height, temperature, sea surface temperature, soil values, ice cover, relative humidity, u- and v- winds, vertical motion, vorticity and ozone.
The archive time series is continuously extended to a near-current date. It is not maintained in real-time.
Air Temperature | Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | Convection | Evaporation |
Geopotential Height | Humidity | Hydrostatic Pressure | Ice Extent |
Land Use/Land Cover Classification | Planetary Boundary Layer Height | Potential Temperature | Sea Level Pressure |
Sea Surface Temperature | Skin Temperature | Snow Water Equivalent | Soil Moisture/Water Content |
Soil Temperature | Surface Pressure | Surface Winds | Terrain Elevation |
Total Precipitable Water | Tropopause | Tropospheric Ozone | Upper Air Temperature |
Upper Level Winds | Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed | Vorticity |
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information 1° x 1° from 0E to 1W and 90N to 90S (360 x 181 Longitude/Latitude) 1° x 1° from 0E to 359E and 90N to 90S (360 x 181 Longitude/Latitude)
NCEP Global Parallel System Documentation
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NCAR Command Language GRIB to NetCDF file structure description
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