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

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  • UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS
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  • NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) 6-hourly Products, January 1979 to December 2010
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  • NCAR_DS093.0
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  • Decker, Mark, Michael A. Brunke, Zhuo Wang, Koichi Sakaguchi, Xubin Zeng, Michael G. Bosilovich, 2012: Evaluation of the Reanalysis Products from GSFC, NCEP, and ECMWF Using Flux Tower Observations. J. Climate, 25, 1916-1944 (DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00004.1), URL: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/full/10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00004.1. Saha, Suranjana, et. al., 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91(8), 1015-1057 (DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1), URL: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/2010BAMS3001.1.
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  • 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. For more information about CFSR in general, please see this page [https://rda.ucar.edu/?hash=pub/cfsr.html]. For data that extend CFSR beyond December 2010, please see the RDA datasets for NCEP's Climate Forecast System Version 2 (CFSv2) [https://rda.ucar.edu/index.html?hash=lfd&nb=y&b=proj&v=NCEP+Climate+Forecast+System+Version+2].
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