NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) Selected Hourly Time-Series Products

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast System (CFS) is initialized four times per day (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC). NCEP upgraded CFS to version 2 on March 30, 2011. This is the same model that was used to create the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR).

Selected CFS time series products are those that are expected to be most useful to users of the dataset, but the products here are by no means an exhaustive compilation of all of the possible products that could be created from the full 6-hourly CFS dataset [https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds094.0/].

The products here are available at 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 degree horizontal resolutions at hourly intervals by combining either 1) the analysis and one- through five-hour forecasts, or 2) the one- through six-hour forecasts, for each initialization time. Beginning with January 1, 2011, these data are archived as an extension of CFSR.

The files in this dataset are grouped by month, so data for a particular month are not available until a few days into the subsequent month. If you need data for the current month, please consult the CFSv2 dataset that contains the complete suite of 6-hourly products.

For more information about CFS, please see http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/ [http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/].

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z
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Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Description of CFSR at the NCAR Climate Data Guide
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Resource Format WMO_GRIB2
WMO_GRIB2
Asset Size 2790435 MB
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Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
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Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Author Saha, Suranjana
Moorthi, Shrinivas
Wu, Xingren
Wang, Jiande
Nadiga, Sudhir
Tripp, Patrick
Behringer, David
Hou, Yu-Tai
Chuang, Hui-ya
Iredell, Mark
Ek, Michael
Meng, Jesse
Yang, Rongqian
Mendez, Malaquias Pena
van den Dool, Huug
Zhang, Qin
Wang, Wanqiu
Chen, Mingyue
Becker, Emily
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-06-03
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N877VB
Alternate Identifier ds094.1
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2023-03-05T15:05:02-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds094.1
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Saha, Suranjana, Moorthi, Shrinivas, Wu, Xingren, Wang, Jiande, Nadiga, Sudhir, Tripp, Patrick, Behringer, David, Hou, Yu-Tai, Chuang, Hui-ya, Iredell, Mark, Ek, Michael, Meng, Jesse, Yang, Rongqian, Mendez, Malaquias Pena, van den Dool, Huug, Zhang, Qin, Wang, Wanqiu, Chen, Mingyue, Becker, Emily. (2011). NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) Selected Hourly Time-Series Products. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6N877VB. Accessed 01 April 2023.

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