NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly Products
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| DOI: 10.5065/D61C1TXF
Abstract:
The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System (CFS) is initialized four times per day (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC). NCEP upgraded their operational CFS to version 2 on March 30, 2011. This is the same model that was used to create the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR), and the purpose of this dataset is to extend CFSR. The 6-hourly atmospheric, oceanic and land surface analyzed products and forecasts, available at 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 degree horizontal resolutions, are archived here beginning with January 1, 2011 as an extension of CFSR. The RDA is not archiving any of the CFS seasonal forecasts. For more information about CFS, please see http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/.
Temporal Range:
2011-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2024-11-27 03:00 +0000
Updates:
Daily
Variables:
| Air Temperature | Albedo | Atmospheric Stability | Cloud Frequency |
| Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | Dew Point Temperature | Diffusion | Diffusion |
| Evaporation | Geopotential Height | Gravity Wave | Heat Flux |
| Humidity | Hydrostatic Pressure | Ice Depth/Thickness | Ice Extent |
| Land Use/Land Cover Classification | Longwave Radiation | Maximum/Minimum Temperature | Ocean Currents |
| Planetary Boundary Layer Height | Potential Temperature | Precipitation Amount | Precipitation Rate |
| Runoff | Salinity | Sea Ice Motion | Sea Surface Height |
| Sea Surface Temperature | Shortwave Radiation | Skin Temperature | Snow Cover |
| Snow Depth | Snow Water Equivalent | Soil Classification | Soil Moisture/Water Content |
| Soil Temperature | Streamfunctions | Sublimation | Surface Roughness |
| Surface Winds | Total Precipitable Water | Upper Air Temperature | Upper Level Winds |
| Vegetation Cover | Vegetation Species | Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed | Vorticity |
| Wind Shear |
Vertical Levels:
See the detailed metadata for level information.
Data Types:
Grid
Spatial Coverage:
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information 0.205° x ~0.204° from 0E to 359.795E and 89.843N to 89.843S (1760 x 880 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 0.205° x ~0.204° from 0E to 359.795E and 89.844N to 89.844S (1760 x 880 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 0.5° x 0.5° from 0.25E to 359.75E and 89.75N to 89.75S (720 x 360 Longitude/Latitude) 0.5° x 0.5° from 0E to 359.5E and 90N to 90S (720 x 361 Longitude/Latitude) 1° x 1° from 0E to 359E and 90N to 90S (360 x 181 Longitude/Latitude) 1.875° x ~1.904° from 0E to 358.125E and 88.542N to 88.542S (192 x 94 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 2.5° x 2.5° from 0E to 357.5E and 90N to 90S (144 x 73 Longitude/Latitude)
Latitude Range: Southernmost=90S Northernmost=90N Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information 0.205° x ~0.204° from 0E to 359.795E and 89.843N to 89.843S (1760 x 880 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 0.205° x ~0.204° from 0E to 359.795E and 89.844N to 89.844S (1760 x 880 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 0.5° x 0.5° from 0.25E to 359.75E and 89.75N to 89.75S (720 x 360 Longitude/Latitude) 0.5° x 0.5° from 0E to 359.5E and 90N to 90S (720 x 361 Longitude/Latitude) 1° x 1° from 0E to 359E and 90N to 90S (360 x 181 Longitude/Latitude) 1.875° x ~1.904° from 0E to 358.125E and 88.542N to 88.542S (192 x 94 Longitude/Gaussian Latitude) 2.5° x 2.5° from 0E to 357.5E and 90N to 90S (144 x 73 Longitude/Latitude)
Data Contributors:
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Related Resources:
Publications:
Saha, Suranjana, and Coauthors, 2014: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2. J. Climate, 27, 2185-2208 (DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00823.1).
Total Volume:
52.71 TB
Data Formats:
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More Details:
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Metadata Record:
Data License:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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