During this August 1994, special launches were made in support of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-scale International Project (GCIP) and GCIP Integrated Systems Test (GIST) as part of an effort to improve climate models by improving parameterizations of hydrolic and energy cycles.

This case study presents data from 1 Aug 1994 to 31 Aug 1994 and covers a region from 25N to 45N latitude and from 120W to 80W longitude.

6-hourly NCEP Reanalysis data are available here for certain pressure level, surface, and surface flux variables.

• Air temperature, Geopotential height, and U-wind and V-wind data are available at 10, 20, 30, 50, 70, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
• Relative humidity and Specific humidity data are available at 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
• Vertical velocity data are available at 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 850, 925, 1000 mb.
• Surface pressure, Sea-level pressure, Surface Temperature, Soil Temperature (0-10 cm), Soil Temperature (10-200 cm), Soil moisture (0-10 cm), and Soil Moisture(10-200 cm) data are available at a single level.
• A land/sea map and surface height map are also available.

You may:

• Download all NCEP levels and variables in one file

• Ftp selected files (ftp://gcss-dime.giss.nasa.gov cd to pub/ARM-94/NCEPINIT)
• Browse NCEP data for selected levels and variables
• Or view other sources if available

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