Identification

Title

GEWEX NASA Water Vapor Project (NVAP)

Alternative title(s)

d722000

Abstract

A five year (1988-1992) total and layered global water vapor data set on 1 degree by 1 degree grids. This set is derived from radiosonde observations, TOVS and SSMI data. Precipitable water content (PWC), layered PWC and cloud liquid water path (LWP) are the main products with supplemental products of each data source. The cloud LWP is over global oceans only. Daily, monthly, yearly and 5-day averaged grids are available.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d722000/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d722000/dataaccess/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Data Access

description: Related Link

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

GRIDDING METHODS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Keyword set

keyword value

GEWEX > Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR INDICATORS > TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD MICROPHYSICS > CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > LIQUID WATER EQUIVALENT

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

End position

1992-12-31T23:00:00Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1995-10-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Limitations on public access

None

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange

full postal address

National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

telephone number

(303)-497-1833

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

chifan@ucar.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

full postal address

NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research

CISL/DECS

P.O. Box 3000

Boulder

80307

U.S.A.

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

datahelp@ucar.edu

web address

https://gdex.ucar.edu/

name: NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

description: The NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange - Integrated Research Data Commons (GDEX) contains an extensive collection of meteorological, atmospheric composition, and oceanographic observations and model outputs to support Earth System Science research. GDEX supports "data proximate" computational research through its integration with NSF NCAR High Performance Compute services [https://arc.ucar.edu/resources], which are made accessible to US researchers through a range of allocations opportunities [https://arc.ucar.edu/xras_submit/opportunities].

function: downlaod

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-10-03T01:38:09Z

Metadata language