Identification

Title

Monthly Northern Hemisphere Tropospheric Analyses

Alternative title(s)

d085000

Abstract

The DSS assembled this long time-series collection of monthly gridded Northern Hemispheric data from the output of various operational models. Monthly mean grids are available separately for 00Z and 12Z (or 03Z and 15Z in the earlier years). Parameters include temperature, geopotential height, and u- and v- wind components at various tropospheric levels, and sea-level pressure and surface temperature. The data are presented on a 47-by-51 north polar stereographic grid with a 381 kilometer resolution (at 60N). We continue to update this dataset mainly for users who have used it in the past and wish to continue receiving the same format. Particularly from April 1997 on, the grids in this dataset are derived from NCEP operational outputs that have a better resolution that what is offered here, so please consider those other more-recent datasets especially if your needs are for data from the late 1990s onward.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d085000/

protocol: https

applicationProfile: browser

name: Dataset Description

description: Related Link

function: information

https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d085000/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

MODELS > MODELS

OPERATIONAL MODELS

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Keyword set

keyword value

ESSPO > 433L ESSPO

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2025-09-19

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > UPPER AIR TEMPERATURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

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

1946-01-01T12:00:00Z

End position

2009-12-31T12:00:00Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

1980-01-11

Frequency of update

quarterly

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)-497-1825

facsimile number

303-497-1291

email address

dattore@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

2025-10-02T23:46:36Z

Metadata language