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Summary
Meteorological datasets are available from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center
in Asheville, NC http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/coare/index.html

NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center in Silver Spring, MD is
archiving and distributing all COARE datasets related to oceanography
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov.

COARE datasets archived at the National ... Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO http://dss.ucar.edu/pub/toga_coare/

BACKGROUND

TOGA COARE was a multidisciplinary, international research effort that
investigated the scientific phenomena associated with the interaction
between the atmosphere and the ocean in the warm pool region of the
western Pacific. The field experiment phase of the program took place
from 1 November 1992 through 28 February 1993 and involved the
deployment of oceanographic ships and buoys, several ship and land
based Doppler radars, multiple low and high level aircraft equipped
with Doppler radar and other airborne sensors, as well as a variety of
surface based instruments for in situ observations.

1) U.S.-National Meteorological Center (Washington, NMC) analysis and
forecast fields, available from the National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR) Mass Storage System (http://dss.ucar.edu/index.html)

The main features of each data set, identified by an NCAR reference
number dsnnn.n, are as follows:

+ ds067.0: NMC 65x65 Northern and Southern Hemisphere Stratospheric
Analyses, daily June 1981 continuing; 12 UTC fields.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds067.0/

+ ds067.1: Gelman's CAC 65x65 Northern and Southern Hemisphere
Analyses, daily September 1978 continuing; 12 UTC fields.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds067.1/

+ ds082.0: NMC Global Analyses, daily July 1976 continuing; 00 and 12
UTC; 2.5 degree grid fields.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds082.0/

+ ds082.1: NMC Global Boundary Layer Analyses, daily July 1976
continuing; This data set is a subset of the ds082.0 data set. It
includes surface and 1000 hPa fields only.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds082.1/

+ ds084.0: NMC Medium Range Forecast (MRF) Model, Global 10-Day
Forecasts, daily 1990 continuing; 12 hourly interval forecasts; R30
fields.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds084.0/

+ ds084.2: NMC Sigma Analyses, daily September 1990 continuing. 00,
06, 12 and 18 UTC, global T126 (beginning March 1991) fields.
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds084.2/

* ds084.5: NMC MRF Model Flux, daily March 1990 continuing. 00, 06, 12
and 18 UTC analysis fields; 24 and 36 MRF 12 hour forecast fields; 384
x 190 global Gaussian grid fields
http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds084.5/

2) Operational analysis fields available from the TCIPO

The NMC operational analysis fields for the COARE period alone, are
available on one Exabyte tape. This dataset, which has been built from
the NMC ds082.0 dataset available from NCAR, consists of 2.5 x 2.5
degree GLOBAL fields basic atmospheric variables over the period July
1992 - October 1993 ONLY (the NCAR dataset consists of hemispheric
fields since 1976). Some interpolating of the NCAR data has also been
done so that there are no missing days on the tape. Finally data on
tape are in Sun binary format. For questions contact George Kiladis
(gnk@noaacrd.colorado.edu).

3) Atlas "A Synoptic-Scale Overview of the TOGA COARE Intensive
Observing Period November 1992 - February 1993, Based on Snalyses from
U.S. Operational Global Data Assimilation Systems".

This atlas, which contains wind and precipitation fields was generated
by global assimilation systems of the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical
Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) and the National
Meteorological Center (NMC). Data used in the atlas are also
available from Mike Fiorino (fiorino@typhoon.llnl.gov).

Geographic Coverage Spatial coordinates   

N: 20.0

S: -20.0

E: 180.0

W: 120.0

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1992-11-01 Stop Date: 1993-02-28

Location Keywords

VERTICAL LOCATION > BOUNDARY LAYER GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EQUATORIAL OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE VERTICAL LOCATION > TROPOSPHERE

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VERTICAL WIND MOTION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > VORTICITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND STRESS ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD AMOUNT/FREQUENCY ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD TYPES ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > RAIN ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > SNOW ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ALBEDO ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > HEAT FLUX > LATENT HEAT FLUX ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > REFLECTANCE > REFLECTIVITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SHORTWAVE RADIATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR IRRADIANCE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION CRYOSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SNOW/ICE > SNOW COVER TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > RUNOFF LAND SURFACE > LAND TEMPERATURE > LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL CHEMISTRY LAND SURFACE > SOILS > SOIL MOISTURE/WATER CONTENT LAND SURFACE > TOPOGRAPHY > TERRAIN ELEVATION OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > WATER TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT ATMOSPHERE > ALTITUDE > TROPOPAUSE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > OXYGEN COMPOUNDS > OZONE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY > TRACE GASES/TRACE SPECIES ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > MAXIMUM/MINIMUM TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > VIRTUAL TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > DEW POINT TEMPERATURE ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > EVAPORATION > POTENTIAL EVAPORATION ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > PRECIPITABLE WATER ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > BOUNDARY LAYER WINDS

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE INLAND WATERS GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION ELEVATION OCEANS

Platform

MODELS

Project

TOGA COARE > TOGA Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment ESIP > Earth Science Information Partners Program

Ancillary Keywords

PRECIPITABLE WATER RADIATION RELATIVE HUMIDITY SEA LEVEL PRESSURE SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE SHORTWAVE RADIATION SIGMA LAYERS SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ANALYSES SST STRATOSPHERIC STRATOSPHERIC ANALYSES SURFACE TOGA COARE TROPOPAUSE TROPOSPHERIC UPPER AIR VORTICITY WARM POOL WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET MODEL SURFACE PRESSURE SURFACE TEMPERATURE TOGA ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION ATMOSPHERIC EXPERIMENT COARE CONVECTION CONVECTIVE ELEVATION FNMOC GLOBAL ANALYSES GLOBAL BOUNDARY LAYER ANALYSES GRID DATA IFA INTENSIVE FLUX ARRAY INTENSIVE OBSERVING PERIOD IOP LARGE SCALE DOMAIN LARGE-SCALE CIRCULATION LONGWAVE RADIATION LSA MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY MODEL MODEL OUTPUT MRF NMC NMC GLOBAL ANALYSES NMC MEDIUM RANGE FORECAST MODEL NMC MRF MODEL FLUX NMC SIGMA ANALYSES NORTHERN HEMISPHERE ANALYSES POTENTIAL TEMPERATURE

Originating Center

TCIPO

Data Center

National Oceanographic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce Data Center URL: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/ Data Center Personnel Name: NODC USER SERVICES Phone: (202) 606-4549 Fax: (202) 606-4586 Email: services at nodc.noaa.gov Contact Address: National Oceanographic Data Center User Services Branch NOAA/NESDIS E/OC1 SSMC3, 4th Floor 1315 East-West Highway City: Silver Spring Province or State: MD Postal Code: 20910-3282 Country: USA Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Data Center URL: http://dss.ucar.edu/ Dataset ID: ds067.0 Dataset ID: ds067.1 Dataset ID: ds082.0 Dataset ID: ds082.1 Dataset ID: ds084.0 Dataset ID: ds084.2 Dataset ID: ds084.5 Data Center Personnel Name: DSS HELP DESK Phone: (303)-497-1231 Fax: (303)-497-1291 Email: dssweb at ucar.edu Contact Address: National Center for Atmospheric Research CISL/DSS P.O. Box 3000 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307 Country: U.S.A. World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville Data Center URL: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wmo/wdcamet.html Data Center Personnel Name: WDC METEOROLOGY CONTACT Phone: 828-271-4800 Fax: 828-271-4246 Email: wdcamet at noaa.gov Contact Address: World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville National Climatic Data Center Federal Building 151 Patton Ave., Room 120 City: Asheville Province or State: NC Postal Code: 28801-5001 Country: USA

Distribution

Distribution Media: ftp (compressed, tar)

Personnel

SCOTT A. RITZ Role: DIF AUTHOR Phone: 301-614-5126 Fax: 301-614-5268 Email: Scott.A.Ritz at nasa.gov Contact Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Global Change Master Directory City: Greenbelt Province or State: Maryland Postal Code: 20771 Country: USA MICHAEL FIORINO Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (510) 423-8505 Fax: (510) 422-7675 Email: fiorino at llnl.gov Contact Address: Program for Climate Model Diagnostics and Intercomparison Lawrence Livermore National Lab 7000 East Avenue, L-264 P.O. Box 808 City: Livermore Province or State: CA Postal Code: 94550 Country: USA GEORGE KILADIS Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (303) 492-1401 Fax: (303) 492-2468 Email: gnk at cdc.noaa.gov Contact Address: Cires/University of Colorado Campus Box 449 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309 Country: USA STEVEN LORD Role: INVESTIGATOR Phone: (301) 763-8005 Fax: (301) 763-8545 Email: wd22sl at sgi39.wwb.noaa.gov Contact Address: NMC/W/NMC22 World Weather Building, Rm 204 5200 Auth Road City: Washington Province or State: DC Postal Code: 20233 Country: USA WILL SPANGLER Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT Phone: (303)-497-1217 Fax: (303)-497-1291 Email: spangler at ucar.edu Contact Address: National Center for Atmospheric Research CISL/DSS P.O. Box 3000 City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80307 Country: U.S.A.

Related URL

Link: GET DATA Description: Access to datasets available from NCAR

Publications/References

Scientific Plan for the TOGA Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response
Experiment, WCRP Publications Series, No. 3 Addendum, World Climate
Research Programme.

TOGA COARE Operations Plan, Working Version September 1992, TOGA COARE
International Project Office.

TOGA COARE Intensive Observing Period Operations Summary, TOGA COARE
International Project Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric
Research.

Summary Report of the TOGA COARE International Data Workshop,
Toulouse, France, 2 - 11 August 1994, TOGA COARE International Project
Office, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 170 pages.

Creation and Review Dates

Last DIF Revision Date: 2004-03-29

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