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ISLSCP II: Near Surface Meteorology Parameters at 1 degree spatial resolution (1986-1995)

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2004-12-16
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2003-12-10
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 206 Files | 3GB
Abstract

The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project, Initiative II (ISLSCP II) is a follow on project from The International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP). ISLSCP II had the lead role in addressing land-atmosphere interactions - process modelling, data retrieval algorithms, field experiment design and execution, and the development of global data sets. The ISLSCP II dataset contains comprehensive data over the 10 year period from 1986 to 1995, from the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP).

This dataset contains:
*precipitation
*temperature
*diurnal temperature range
*wet-day frequency
*vapour pressure
*cloud cover
*ground frost frequency

The data are mapped to consistent grids (0.5 x 0.5 degrees for topography, 1 x 1 degrees for meteorological parameters). Some data have a grid size of 0.25 x 0.25 degrees. The temporal resolution for most data sets is monthly (however a few are at finer resolution - 3 hourly). This dataset is public.

Citable as:   (2003): ISLSCP II: Near Surface Meteorology Parameters at 1 degree spatial resolution (1986-1995). NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/9cfbdce7945247a6877e0b7e0dd76865
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ISLSCP, NASA, Near Surface Meteorology

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data obtained over a 10 year period from 1986 to 1995, collated by the International Satellite Land Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) II. A copy of these data was obtained by the BADC to assist the UK research community.
Data Quality:
NASA quality controlled data
File Format:
Data are ASCII formatted.

Related Documents

 CRU05 Mean Monthly Climatology (1961-1990) and Monthly Climate Time
 ISLSCP 2: CRU05 Mean Monthly Climatology (1961-1990) and Monthly Climate Time
 ECMWF Subset of Near Surface Meteorology Parameters from the ECWMF Re-Analysis (ERA40).
 COLA Version of NCEP/DOE AMIP II Re-Analysis
 The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) Version of the National Centers for Environmental Predictions (NCEP)/Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP)-II Reanalysis.

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Computation Element: 1

Title ECMWF reanalysis output for the ISLSCP-II project
Abstract The ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts) near-surface data set for the ISLSCP Initiative II data collection has been derived from the ECMWF 40-year reanalysis, or ERA40 (Simmons and Gibson, 2000), covering the years 1957 to 2001. The purpose of ERA40 is to produce an objective analysis of the atmosphere making optimal use of a wide range of observing systems. A recent version of the ECMWF Numerical Weather Prediction system (cycle 23r4) is used for the entire analysis period. The advantage of re-analysis over operational analysis is that no system changes occur that might affect the analysis products, although there are significant changes in the observations
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None

Computation Element: 2

Title NCEP reanalysis output for the ISLSCP-II project
Abstract The analysis increment for the NCEP/DOE AMIP-II reanalysis is six hours, and output data are routinely reported every hour or six hours. In order to satisfy the ISLSCP-II requirement for 3-hourly data, twice daily 36 hour forecasts were made and hourly output were obtained from the 24-36 hour forecasts. The 24-36 hour forecasts were chosen to minimize "spin-up/spindown" problems. The one-hour data were later combined to produce 3-hourly data. Time averaging was performed on the native reanalysis grid. For the 3-hourly and the monthly-3- hourly data, the hour in the file name refers to the end of the 3-hour period. For example, 03Z refers to the value at 03Z (for instantaneous data) or the average over the preceding period 00Z- 03Z (for the flux fields and snow cover fraction).
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
  • long_name: Air Temperature
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • gcmd_keyword: Air Temperature
  • names: Air Temperature, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0027
  • long_name: Climatology
  • names: Climatology
  • long_name: Cloud Amount
  • names: Cloud Amount
  • long_name: Frost
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G177
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Frost
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Phenomena > Frost, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/G177
  • long_name: Precipitation
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H334
  • gcmd_keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation
  • names: EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P041/4/H334
  • long_name: Vapour Pressure
  • names: Vapour Pressure
  • long_name: Wind Direction
  • names: Wind Direction

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1986-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
1995-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
Related parties
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