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MONTHLY Intrinsic PressureLevel u zonal wind from NOAA NCEP-NCAR CDAS-1: Climate Data Assimilation System I; NCEP-NCAR Reanalysis Project.

Independent Variables (Grids)

Pressure: grid: /P (mb) ordered [ (1000) (925) (850) (700) (600) (500) (400) (300) (250) (200) (150) (100) (70) (50) (30) (20) (10)] :grid
Time: grid: /T (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1949) to (Nov 2008) by 1. N= 719 pts :grid
Longitude: grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (0) to (2.5W) by 2.5 N= 144 pts :grid
Latitude: grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90N) to (90S) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid

Other Info

calendar: standard
center: US Weather Service - National Met. Center
datatype: realarraytype
filepattern: /Data/data6/ncep-ncar/reanI/prs/prs.grib.mean.%6d
grib_name: UGRD
GRIBgridcode: 2
gribleveltype: 100
gribNumBits: 12
gribparam: 33
PDS_TimeRange: 113
process: 62 wave triangular, 28 layer Spectral model from "Medium Range Forecast" run
PTVersion: 2
scale_max: 124.4
scale_min: -66.379997
subcenter: NCEP Ensemble Products
units: m /s
standard units*: meter second^-1

References

Kalnay, E., M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, A. Leetmaa, B. Reynolds, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph. The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, March, 1996

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