NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) Monthly 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). CFSv2 monthly atmospheric, oceanic and land surface output products are available at 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 1.9, and 2.5 degree horizontal resolutions as 6-hourly diurnal monthly means (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC) and regular full monthly means. For more information about CFS, please see http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2011-01-01T0000+00
    End:  2025-10-01T0000+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2011-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2025-10-01T0000+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.0
Bounding Box South Lat -90.0
Bounding Box West Long -180.0
Bounding Box East Long 180.0
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution 0.5 degree
1 degree
0.205 degree
2.5 degree
1.875 degree
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : Description of the CFSR at the NCAR Climate Data Guide
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO GRIB2
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 2239308.564 MB
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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 NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2012-04-22
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D69021ZF
Alternate Identifier d094002
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:19:54Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d094002
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. (2012). NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) Monthly Products. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69021ZF. Accessed 09 October 2025.

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