NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis

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The NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis is an atmospheric reanalysis produced[ when? ] by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) in College Park, Maryland and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. It is a continually updated globally gridded data set that represents the state of the Earth's atmosphere, incorporating observations and numerical weather prediction (NWP) model output from 1948 to present.

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Accessing the data

The data is available for free download from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory [1] and National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). [2] It is distributed in Netcdf and GRIB files, for which a number of tools and libraries exist. It is available for download through the NCAR CISL Research Data Archive on the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis main data page. [3]

Uses

Subsequent updates

Since the original NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis, a NCEP-DOE Reanalysis 2 [5] and the NCEP CFS Reanalysis [6] have been released. The former focuses in fixing existing bugs with the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis system – most notably surface energy and usage of observed precipitation forcing to the land surface, but otherwise uses a similar numerical model and data assimilation system. The latter is based on the NCEP Climate Forecast System. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis". NOAA. Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 20 November 2008.
  2. ↑ "NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis". NOAA. Archived from the original on 27 May 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis". NCAR . Retrieved 21 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "North American Freezing Level Tracker". wrcc.dri.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-12.
  5. ↑ Kanamitsu M., W. Ebisuzaki, J. Woollen, S-K Yang, J. J. Hnilo, M. Fiorino, G. L. Potter: 2002. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83:11, 1631–1643
  6. ↑ S. Saha, and coauthors, 2010: The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91:8, 1015–1057.
  7. ↑ S. Saha, and coauthors, 2006 : The NCEP Climate Forecast System. J. Climate, Vol. 19, No. 15, pages 3483.3517.

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