Monthly Climatological Grid Data for Levels Aloft

The USAF Environmental Technical Applications Center (ETAC) created these monthly climatologies of temperature and winds for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and geopotential height for the Northern Hemisphere. Generally, the data input period from approximately 150 stations was the 5-year period from January 1956 through December 1960, but some data into 1962 were also used. The climatologies are available on 5-degree latitude/longitude grids separately for eight vertical pressure levels between 850 and 50 millibars, inclusive.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1956-01-01T0000+00
    End:  1961-01-01T0000+00

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1956-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 1961-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.0
Bounding Box South Lat -90.0
Bounding Box West Long -180.0
Bounding Box East Long 180.0
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 5 degree
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 5.507 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author 557th Weather Wing, U.S. Air Force, U. S. Department of Defense
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1980-03-27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/Z4EA-B620
Alternate Identifier d220000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:36Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d220000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation 557th Weather Wing, U.S. Air Force, U. S. Department of Defense. (1980). Monthly Climatological Grid Data for Levels Aloft. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/Z4EA-B620. Accessed 09 October 2025.

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