NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, July 1976 to April 1997

The Final (FNL) global tropospheric analyses archived here were produced by NCEP's Global Forecast System (GFS), which was run operationally at 12-hour intervals to make multiple-day weather forecasts, from July 1976 through mid-April 1997. FNLs are analyses that are produced after the model has completed the forecast cycle, and they include the most complete set of observations available for a given cycle. The FNL from a given cycle, which is the best available analysis, is then used in the initialization of the next cycle.

FNL Data are available on pairs of 2.5-degree hemispheric grids (North and South) at the Earth's surface, twelve vertical levels from 1000 millibars up to 50 millibars, the tropopause, boundary and some sigma layers, and a few other levels. Parameters include surface pressure, sea level pressure, geopotential height, temperature, sea surface temperature, potential temperature, relative humidity, snow depth (weekly, Northern Hemisphere only) precipitable water, u- and v- winds, and vertical motion.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1976-07-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  1997-03-31T12:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1976-07-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 1997-03-31T12:00:00Z
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 2.5 degree
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Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NCEP_ON84
WMO_GRIB1
Standardized Resource Format OTHER
GRIB
Asset Size 38303 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Bob Dattore
Resource Support Email dattore@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1980-01-11
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D6K07288
Alternate Identifier d082000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-02T23:46:21Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d082000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1980). NCEP FNL Operational Model Global Tropospheric Analyses, July 1976 to April 1997. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D6K07288. Accessed 04 October 2025.

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