Climate Analysis Center Base Period Climate Diagnostics Data Base

This dataset contains monthly long-term climatological means, variances, and covariances of geopotential height, temperature, specific humidity, wind, and vertical motion for the atmosphere from 1000mb up to 50mb. Long-term means are computed over the period from October 1978 to September 1985. The data are on a global latitude/longitude grid with a resolution of 2.5 degrees.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1978-10-01T0000+00
    End:  1985-10-01T0000+00

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1978-10-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 1985-10-01T0000+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 2.5 degree
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 194.855 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1987-04-16
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/8ARS-CZ41
Alternate Identifier d218000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:24Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d218000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. (1987). Climate Analysis Center Base Period Climate Diagnostics Data Base. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/8ARS-CZ41. Accessed 11 October 2025.

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