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NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) Selected Hourly Time-Series Products

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| DOI: 10.5065/D6N877VB
 
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 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).

Selected CFS time series products are those that are expected to be most useful to users of the dataset, but the products here are by no means an exhaustive compilation of all of the possible products that could be created from the full 6-hourly CFS dataset.

The products here are available at 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 degree horizontal resolutions at hourly intervals by combining either 1) the analysis and one- through five-hour forecasts, or 2) the one- through six-hour forecasts, for each initialization time. Beginning with January 1, 2011, these data are archived as an extension of CFSR.

The files in this dataset are grouped by month, so data for a particular month are not available until a few days into the subsequent month. If you need data for the current month, please consult the CFSv2 dataset that contains the complete suite of 6-hourly products.

For more information about CFS, please see http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/.

Temporal Range:
2011-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2024-03-01 00:00 +0000
Updates:
Monthly
Variables:
Air Temperature Cloud Frequency Geopotential Height Heat Flux
Humidity Hydrostatic Pressure Ice Depth/Thickness Ice Extent
Longwave Radiation Maximum/Minimum Temperature Precipitation Rate Runoff
Sea Surface Temperature Shortwave Radiation Skin Temperature Snow Water Equivalent
Soil Moisture/Water Content Soil Temperature Streamfunctions Surface Winds
Total Precipitable Water Upper Air Temperature Upper Level Winds Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed
Vorticity
GRIB2 parameter table: HTML | XML
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
Data Contributors:
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEP
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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:
3.43 TB
Data Formats:
Related RDA Datasets:
 - 
NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) Selected Hourly Time-Series Products, January 1979 to December 2010
 - 
NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly Products
More Details:
View a more detailed summary of the data, including specific date ranges and locations by parameter
Metadata Record:
Data License:
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