gov.noaa.ncdc:C00300 National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Unknown tabular digital data http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/archive/descriptions/od/toga/index.html http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/WDM/Guides/Guide-binary-2.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/index.html http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/index.html http Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere (TOGA) Level III-A Analyses is digital data set DSI-9664, archived at the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) created and maintains an archive of level III-A global atmospheric data in support of projects associated with the World Climate Research Program (WCRP). This archive is directly interpolated from the ECMWF operational, full resolution, surface and pressure level data. ECMWF has provided a subset of its archive to the NCDC. The subset consists of the surface and upper air sections of the Basic Level III-A data set for the 1985-to-present time period. This is the DSI-9664 data set. Both surface and upper air data sets contain uninitialized analysis values interpolated to a 2.5 x 2.5 regular latitude/longitude grid. This grid is co-located with the 5 x 5 and 2.5 x 2.5 grids used for ECMWF data distribution daily on the Global Telecommunications System (GTS). Data is available from 1 January 1985 to the current date. Fields are uninitialized analyses for 0000 UTC and 1200 UTC each day. Each parameter at each level is stored as a field of grid point values on a 2.5 x 2.5 regular rectangular mesh in latitude rows starting at the north and working southwards. Within each row, values run from west to east starting at the 0 meridian. Data are stored in FM 92 GRIB using sufficient bits to ensure that the grid point values can be retrieved to an accuracy consistent with the analysis methods used. The surface data set contains: Starting 1 January 1985: surface pressure, soil temperature level 1, MSL pressure, u- and v-components of wind at 10m, temperature at 2m, dewpoint at 2m, surface geopotential and land-sea mask. The upper air data set contains: Starting 1 January 1985: 14 standard pressure levels, 1000, 850, 700, 500, 400, 300, 250, 200, 150, 100, 70, 50, 30 and 10 hPa, with geopotential height, temperature, vertical velocity, u- and v- components of horizontal wind, and relative humidity at each level. Starting 1 January 1992: pressure level 925 hPa added. Starting 1 April 1999: pressure levels 20, 7, 5, 3, 2 and 1 hPa added. To make a wide range of climatic data available to researchers and the public. data set C00300 ALTIMETERS ANEMOMETERS BAROMETERS HUMIDITY SENSORS PSYCHROMETERS RADIOSONDES SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE TEMPERATURE SENSORS THERMOMETERS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES WIND VANES BUOYS METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS RADIOSONDES SHIPS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/index.html 19850101 Present Ground Condition In work As Needed -180.0 180.0 90.0 -90.0 ISO 19115 Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 004 elevation 006 oceans 014 DIF Discipline Keyword Thesaurus Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Meteorology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Climatology Earth Sciences > Atmosphere > Weather Earth Sciences > Ocean > Oceanography GCMD Sciences Keyword Valids EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOPSHERE > ALTITUDE > STATION HEIGHT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > PRESSURE THICKNESS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VERTICAL WIND MOTION EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > FROZEN GROUND > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL TEMPERATURE EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS GCMD Location Valids GLOBAL GCMD Location Valids STRATOSPHERE TROPOSPHERE LAND SURFACE SEA SURFACE TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS BAROMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS HUMIDITY SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS THERMOMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS PSYCHROMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS ANEMOMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS WIND VANES TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere SHIPS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS BAROMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS HUMIDITY SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS ANEMOMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS WIND VANES TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere BUOYS WAVE HEIGHT GAUGES TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS ALTIMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS BAROMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS HUMIDITY SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS TEMPERATURE SENSORS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS THERMOMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS PSYCHROMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS ANEMOMETERS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS WIND VANES TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS TOGA > Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere RADIOSONDES RADIOSONDES 1 None None Not provided Unknown Completeness information not available. 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