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Met Office Northern Hemisphere Gridded 500hPa Geopotential Height Daily and Monthly Series

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2006-05-27
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2007-02-03
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 148 Files | 110MB
Abstract

This dataset holds Northern Hemisphere (north of 15 deg. N) daily and monthly series of 500 hPa geopotential height fields. The data is gridded on a 5x10 degree grid. The data is available for the period 1945 to 2005. The data is supplied by the Met Office, Hadley Centre.

Citable as:  Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research (2007): Met Office Northern Hemisphere Gridded 500hPa Geopotential Height Daily and Monthly Series. NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/bb5ff147f63fcfbb3797b5925f22a171
Abbreviation: Hadley-NH-GeoHeight
Keywords: Met Office, Hadley, geopotential height, thickness

Details

Previous Info:
No news update for this record
Previously used record identifiers:
http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/view/badc.nerc.ac.uk__ATOM__dep_11704772105913837
Access rules:
Restricted data: please submit an application using the REQUEST ACCESS link for access.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/ukmo_agreement.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were prepared by the Met Office's Hadley Centre for the period 1945 to 2005, before a copy was obtained for archiving at the BADC.
Data Quality:
Data were prepared by the Met Office's Hadley Centre
File Format:
ASCII

Related Documents

 NH Geopotential Height data file format explained

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height daily data processing deployed on Met Office Hadley Centre Computers
Abstract

This computation involved: Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height daily data processing deployed on Met Office Hadley Centre Computers. Processing used by the Hadley Centre to produce the Northern Hemisphere Geopotential Height daily dataset.
Input Description

None
Output Description

None
Software Reference

None
  • long_name: Geopotential Height
  • gcmd_url: http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0341
  • gcmd_keyword: Geopotential Height
  • names: Geopotential Height, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/term/P141/4/GVAR0341
  • long_name: Height
  • names: Height

Co-ordinate Variables

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1944-12-31T23:00:00
End time:
2005-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
15.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (1)
Publishers (1)
Funders (1)