ERA40 T85 Analysis Fields on Model Levels, created at NCAR

DS124.2 represents a dataset implemented and computed by NCAR's Data Support Section, and forms an essential part of efforts undertaken in late 2004, early 2005, to produce an archive of selected segments of ERA-40 on a standard transformation grid. In this case, ERA-40 6-hourly upper air variables on 60 model levels were transformed from either spherical harmonics (surface geopotential, temperature, vertical velocity, vorticity, logarithm of surface pressure, divergence), or a reduced N80 Gaussian grid (specific humidity, ozone mass mixing ratio, cloud liquid water content, cloud ice water content, cloud cover), to a 256 by 128 regular Gaussian grid at T85 spectral truncation. In addition, horizontal wind components were derived from spectral vorticity and divergence and also archived on a T85 Gaussian grid. All scalar fields were transformed using routines from the ECMWF EMOS library, whereas the horizontal winds were obtained using NCAR's SPHEREPACK library. The choice of a T85 Gaussian grid was based on considerations of limiting the volume of new data generated to a moderate level, and to match the horizontal resolution of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) [https://www.cesm.ucar.edu/models/atm-cam/] component of NCAR's Community Climate System Model (CCSM).

The ERA-Interim data from ECMWF is an update to the ERA-40 project. The ERA-Interim data starts in 1989 and has a higher horizontal resolution (T255, N128 nominally 0.703125 degrees) than the ERA-40 data (T159, N80 nominally 1.125 degrees). ERA-Interim is based on a more current model than ERA-40 and uses 4DVAR (as opposed to 3DVAR in ERA-40). ECMWF will continue to run the ERA-Interim model in near real time through at least 2010, and possibly longer. This data is available in ds627.0 [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds627.0/].

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Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Dave Stepaniak
    davestep@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1957-09-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2002-08-31T18:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1957-09-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2002-08-31T18:00:00Z
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Bounding Box South Lat N/A
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Related Links

Related Resource #1 : ECMWF's Climate Reanalysis web site

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Resource Format WMO_GRIB1 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 2752577 MB
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Resource Support Name Dave Stepaniak
Resource Support Email davestep@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Research Data Archive, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2005-05-02
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6610XC7
Alternate Identifier d124002
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:10:30Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d124002
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Research Data Archive, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. (2005). ERA40 T85 Analysis Fields on Model Levels, created at NCAR. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6610XC7. Accessed 12 October 2024.

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