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ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters

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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222
Version1
Project
Published2014-06-05
Updated2023-10-15
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Description

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.

Science Keywords

  • CRYOSPHERE
  • SNOW/ICE
  • ALBEDO
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • PRECIPITATION
  • PRECIPITATION RATE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC WINDS
  • SURFACE WINDS
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
  • UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
  • SURFACE TEMPERATURE
  • SKIN TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
  • SHORTWAVE RADIATION
  • ATMOSPHERE
  • ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION
  • LONGWAVE RADIATION
  • LAND SURFACE
  • SOILS
  • SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT
  • LAND SURFACE
  • SURFACE RADIATIVE PROPERTIES
  • ALBEDO

Data Use and Citation

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Beljaars, A.C.M., A.K. Betts, E. Brown de Colstoun, F.G. Hall, G.J. Collatz, B.W. Meeson, S.O. Los, and D.R. Landis. 2014. ISLSCP II ECMWF Near-Surface Meteorology Parameters. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1222

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Dataset has 4 companion files.

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