NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly 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 their operational 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), and the purpose of this dataset is to extend CFSR. The 6-hourly atmospheric, oceanic and land surface analyzed products and forecasts, available at 0.2, 0.5, 1.0, and 2.5 degree horizontal resolutions, are archived here beginning with January 1, 2011 as an extension of CFSR. The RDA is not archiving any of the CFS seasonal forecasts. 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:  2025-07-05T03:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2025-07-05T03:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90
Bounding Box South Lat -90
Bounding Box West Long -180
Bounding Box East Long 180
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 0.205 degree
0.5 degree
1 degree
1.875 degree
2.5 degree
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Description of CFSR at the NCAR Climate Data Guide
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO_GRIB2 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 38182826 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Suranjana Saha
Shrinivas Moorthi
Xingren Wu
Jiande Wang
Sudhir Nadiga
Patrick Tripp
David Behringer
Yu-Tai Hou
Hui-ya Chuang
Mark Iredell
Michael Ek
Jesse Meng
Rongqian Yang
Malaquias Pena Mendez
Huug van den Dool
Qin Zhang
Wanqiu Wang
Mingyue Chen
Emily Becker
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2011-03-31
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1TXF
Alternate Identifier d094000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2025-07-05T05:05:01Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d094000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Suranjana Saha, Shrinivas Moorthi, Xingren Wu, Jiande Wang, Sudhir Nadiga, Patrick Tripp, David Behringer, Yu-Tai Hou, Hui-ya Chuang, Mark Iredell, Michael Ek, Jesse Meng, Rongqian Yang, Malaquias Pena Mendez, Huug van den Dool, Qin Zhang, Wanqiu Wang, Mingyue Chen, Emily Becker. (2011). NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly Products. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1TXF. Accessed 05 July 2025.

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