ArcticRIMS: Precipitation From ERA-40 Re-analysis

This data set provides estimates of daily total precipitation from the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) ERA-40 Reanalysis (ECMWF 2002). Data cover the period 1 January 1979 to 31 August 2002. Data were obtained from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Data Support Section dataset ds117.0 (). Precipitation is archived as 6 hour accumulations of convective and large scale (Stratiform) precipitation. Daily total precipitation was computed by summing 6 hour accumulations of convective and large-scale components. Fields of total precipitation were regridded from the native N80 (roughly 1 degree resolution) reduced Gaussian grid to the Equal-Area Scalable Earth 25km Grid (EASE 25km grid) using a bilinear interpolation scheme. This scheme is described in ECMWF [2003]. The data is presented in 24 sub-datasets of different spatial and temporal aggregations.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2002-08-31T00:00:00Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2002-08-31T00:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 45.00000
Bounding Box West Long -180.00000
Bounding Box East Long 180.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
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Documentation #1 : 2_5.txt

106.ARCSS161 : is a companion to dataset 106.241
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format TAR: Unix Tape ARchive (TAR) Format File (application/x-tar)
Standardized Resource Format Archive
Asset Size 536 MB
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Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Distributor NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author Charles J. Vorosmarty ORCID icon
Richard B. Lammers
Mark C. Serreze ORCID icon
Andy Barrett
Publisher NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2009-05-15T15:00:53
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.241
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:01:57Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.241
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Charles J. Vorosmarty, Richard B. Lammers, Mark C. Serreze, Andy Barrett. (2009). ArcticRIMS: Precipitation From ERA-40 Re-analysis. 1.0. NSF NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/106.241. Accessed 24 January 2026.

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