The NCEP–NCAR 50–Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD–ROM and Documentation

Robert Kistler, William D. Collins, Suranjana Saha, Glenn H. White, John S. Woollen, Eugenia Kalnay, Muthuvel Chelliah, Wesley Ebisuzaki, Masao Kanamitsu, Vernon E. Kousky,

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2001 · 4.4K citations · 14 references

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The National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have cooperated in a project (denoted "reanalysis") to produce a retroactive record of more than 50 years of global analyses of atmospheric fields in support of the needs of the research and climate monitoring communities. This effort involved the recovery of land surface, ship, rawinsonde, pibal, aircraft, satellite, and other data. These

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