edu.ucar.gdex::d217001 eng; USA utf-8 dataset NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange The Geoscience Data Exchange (GDEX), managed by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at NSF NCAR, contains a large collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations, and operational and reanalysis model outputs, integrated with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services to support atmospheric and geosciences research. download pointOfContact 2024-07-31T23:26:51Z ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO19115:2003/Cor 1 2006 https://doi.org/10.5065/9PPT-SQ83 Global Atmospheric Circulation Statistics, 1958-1989 d217001 1994-12-12 publication Oort, Abraham Hans author NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research publisher Twenty-two monthly statistical quantities make up this dataset of grids which describes the atmospheric general circulation at eleven vertical levels across the troposphere and stratosphere over a 32-year period. These gridded analyses, created from upper air soundings across the globe, span the period from May 1958 to December 1989. The statistical parameters, which are useful for comparing climate model simulations to actual observations, include monthly means and variances of horizontal and vertical wind, temperature, geopotential height, moisture, and horizontal wind divergence. There are also covariance terms describing the relationship between wind, temperature, moisture, and geopotential height. In general, the analyses near the surface of the earth (900mb and below) tend to be less reliable than those of the higher levels because the individual rawinsonde reports are often incomplete due to missing 1000mb reports. completed datahelp@ucar.edu pointOfContact notPlanned dataset NetCDF dataset Resource Type 2021-03-30 revision 4.4 DataCite Metadata Working Group orginator resourceTypeGeneral MODELS > MODELS U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-10-14 revision 25.0 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Platforms EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > CONVERGENCE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND DYNAMICS > VERTICAL WIND VELOCITY/SPEED U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Global Change Master Directory GCMD 2026-10-14 revision 25.0 NASA Global Change Master Directory orginator Valids List: Science and Services Keywords Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License None grid 5 eng utf-8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1958-05-01T0000+00 1990-01-01T0000+00 NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange datahelp@ucar.edu https://gdex.ucar.edu distributor 3339.899 https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d217001/ https Dataset Description Related Link information https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d217001/dataaccess/ https Data Access Related Link download none asNeeded