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Surface parameters from ECMWF model 10-day forecast

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Product description(2007-04-27)
WHAT ?PRODUCT-ID

ECMWF-GLOBAL-ATM-FOR
PRODUCT TYPE

Forcing fields

OUTPUT TYPE

Gridded (analysis)
OVERVIEW

General information : Global forecast surface parameters up to 10 days are produced operationally in real time by the Numerical Weather Prediction system of the European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecast. They are can be used as an input by the ocean models to compute the atmospheric forcing terms at the ocean surface.

PARAMETERS GROUP
(from BODC)
PARAMETERS (parameter, unit, convention)
  • air_pressure_at_sea_level,Pa,CF
  • air_temperature,K,CF
  • dew_point_temperature,K,CF
  • eastward_wind,m s-1,CF
  • northward_wind,m s-1,CF
  • sea_ice_area_fraction,1,CF
WHERE ?GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
90.0
-180.0180.0
-90.0
GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE

Global scale
SPATIAL RESOLUTION

0.5 degree
VERTICAL COVERAGE

from 10 to 0 meters.
WHEN ?TEMPORAL COVERAGESince 2005-01-01 - onGoingTEMPORAL RESOLUTION
PROCESS/ UPDATEUPDATEDdaily
BY (supply center)
name : ECMWF
web site : http://www.nerc-essc.ac.uk/godiva/

Delivery

ServiceResourceAverage Volume/releaseFormatLicence/
conditions		Distributor
ftp
0.5 Mb for each parameter release.FTP/netCDFAccess restricted to MERSEA Consortium Members
name : METEO-France / CMS
web site : http://www.meteo-france.fr
full

Documentation

TitleOnline ResourcePublication
General ECMWF products documentationhttp://www.ecmwf.int/
General ECMWF products documentationhttp://www.ecmwf.int/



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