NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010 

The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Climate Forecast
System Reanalysis (CFSR) was initially completed over the 31-year period from
1979 to 2009 and has been extended to March 2011.  CFSR was initialized 4 times
per day (0000, 0600, 1200, and 1800 UTC), and the 6-hourly atmospheric, oceanic
and land surface analyzed products are available at 0.3, 0.5, 1.0, 1.9, and 2.5
degree horizontal resolutions, along with forecast hours 1 through 6.  However,
not all parameters are available at all resolutions and some parameters are not
analyzed (e.g. 2 meter temperature, 10 meter winds), so please consult the detailed
metadata for exact descriptions of what is available.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-01-01T0000+00
    End:  2011-01-01T0300+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-01-01T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2011-01-01T0300+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
2.5 degree
1.875 degree
0.312 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 55812502.816 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name N/A
Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Saha, Suranjana
Moorthi, Shrinivas
Pan, Hua-Lu
Wu, Xingren
Wang, Jie
Nadiga, Sudhir
Tripp, Patrick
Kistler, Robert
Woollen, John
Behringer, David
Liu, Haixia
Stokes, Diane
Grumbine, Robert
Gayno, George
Wang, Jun
Hou, Yu-Tai
Chuang, Hui-Ya
Juang, Hann-Ming H.
Sela, Joe
Iredell, Mark
Treadon, Russ
Kleist, Daryl
Van Delst, Paul
Keyser, Dennis
Derber, John
Ek, Michael
Meng, Jesse
Wei, Helin
Yang, Rongqian
Lord, Stephen
van den Dool, Huug
Kumar, Arun
Wang, Wanqiu
Long, Craig
Chelliah, Muthuvel
Xue, Yan
Huang, Boyin
Schemm, Jae-Kyung
Ebisuzaki, Wesley
Lin, Roger
Xie, Pingping
Chen, Mingyue
Zhou, Shuntai
Higgins, Wayne
Zou, Cheng-Zhi
Liu, Quanhua
Chen, Yong
Han, Yong
Cucurull, Lidia
Reynolds, Richard W.
Rutledge, Glenn
Goldberg, Mitch
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2010-01-20
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J
Alternate Identifier d093000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:30:58Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d093000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Saha, Suranjana, Moorthi, Shrinivas, Pan, Hua-Lu, Wu, Xingren, Wang, Jie, Nadiga, Sudhir, Tripp, Patrick, Kistler, Robert, Woollen, John, Behringer, David, Liu, Haixia, Stokes, Diane, Grumbine, Robert, Gayno, George, Wang, Jun, Hou, Yu-Tai, Chuang, Hui-Ya, Juang, Hann-Ming H., Sela, Joe, Iredell, Mark, Treadon, Russ, Kleist, Daryl, Van Delst, Paul, Keyser, Dennis, Derber, John, Ek, Michael, Meng, Jesse, Wei, Helin, Yang, Rongqian, Lord, Stephen, van den Dool, Huug, Kumar, Arun, Wang, Wanqiu, Long, Craig, Chelliah, Muthuvel, Xue, Yan, Huang, Boyin, Schemm, Jae-Kyung, Ebisuzaki, Wesley, Lin, Roger, Xie, Pingping, Chen, Mingyue, Zhou, Shuntai, Higgins, Wayne, Zou, Cheng-Zhi, Liu, Quanhua, Chen, Yong, Han, Yong, Cucurull, Lidia, Reynolds, Richard W., Rutledge, Glenn, Goldberg, Mitch. (2010). NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/D69K487J. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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