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OORT Surface

Surface from OORT: Global atmospheric circulation statistics/analysis from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory based on weather station, ship, and buoy data.

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Datasets and variables

qa variance OORT Surface qaqa[ X Y | T]
qhum OORT Surface qhum[ X Y | T]
SSTSST OORT Surface SSTSST[ X Y | T]
air temperature OORT Surface tair[ X Y | T]
TaTa OORT Surface TaTa[ X Y | T]
zonal velocity OORT Surface u[ X Y | T]
uu OORT Surface uu[ X Y | T]
meridonal velocity OORT Surface v[ X Y | T]
vv OORT Surface vv[ X Y | T]
Z-Zsurface OORT Surface zdel[ X Y | T]
zdel variance OORT Surface zdelzdel[ X Y | T]

Independent Variables (Grids)

Time grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1. N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (180W) to (175E) by 5. N= 72 pts :grid
Latitude grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (90S) to (90N) by 2.5 N= 73 pts :grid

References

Oort, A.H.. Global atmospheric circulation statistics, 1958-1973, number 14, 1983

Last updated: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:28:58 GMT