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/.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2011-01-01T0000+00
    End:  2025-10-31T0300+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2011-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2025-10-31T0300+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 CFSR at the NCAR Climate Data Guide
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format WMO GRIB2
Standardized Resource Format GRIB
Asset Size 56202455.132 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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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 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 2025-10-31T05:05:03Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d094000
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. (2011). NCEP Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) 6-hourly Products. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D61C1TXF. Accessed 31 October 2025.

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